IPv6 + reverse proxy

[sammyjenkins]

Hello,


I have several lxc containers with web applications on proxmox.
Container with apache passes 80/443 requests to containers and with ipv4 everything is ok.

Now, I would like to implement ipv6 for the containers while keeping ipv4.
I was able to set up GUAs for the containers (without NAT - directly to the VM), but I'm facing the problem, that I have to set up web server in each container to be able to access the web apps via ipv6. And moreover I have to manage both reverse proxy and all the web servers inside containers.

How can I implement ipv6 without the need of installing web server in each container and need of maintaining a lot of web servers?
I read that ULAs + NAT66 is a bad thing to do.

Are there best practices for such situations?


I guess it's more of a networking question than a question about proxmox. But I can't find any information on that topic and may be there are some things I have to consider when implementing ipv6 in proxmox.


Thank you very much for any suggestions in advance.

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

I would use HA-Proxy instead of apache for redirecting the requests to the container.
HA-Proxy is made for this scenario.
But check out the Ha-proxy or NGNIX forum for this kind of setup.

1.) https://discourse.haproxy.org/
2.) https://forum.nginx.org/

 

[sammyjenkins]

Sorry for the late reply.
And thank you very much. I was able to use nginx to proxy_pass requests from IPv6 GUA of the host to the IPv4 container addresses.

Hi,

I would use HA-Proxy instead of apache for redirecting the requests to the container.
HA-Proxy is made for this scenario.
But check out the Ha-proxy or NGNIX forum for this kind of setup.

1.) https://discourse.haproxy.org/
2.) https://forum.nginx.org/