gnokoheat / nginx-jwt-reverse-proxy

Nginx reverse proxy with JWT authentication

nginx-jwt-reverse-proxy

Nginx reverse proxy with JWT authentication

Work flow

• Client -> Nginx (JWT Auth) -> Server

Description

• jwt authentication
• return X-Auth-UserId header from sub
• gzip compression
• json type error response
• http method allowed only GET, POST, PUT, DELETE

Usage

docker run -d -p 80:80 --name nginx-jwt-reverse-proxy \
    -e JWT_SECRET=xxxxx \ # ex) secret
    -e BACKEND=xxxxx \ # ex) http://app:3000
    gnokoheat/nginx-jwt-reverse-proxy