Self-host Nginx Reverse Proxy (Multi-Backend) with Docker

One Nginx entrypoint routing to two independent backend services, demonstrating depends_on across three services. This page describes the Levelrail template for Nginx Reverse Proxy (Multi-Backend) (Starter Kits). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server. Project site: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html. Recommended memory: about 192 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
`orders`	`node:22-alpine`	none	none
`payments`	`node:22-alpine`	none	none
`proxy`	`nginx:1.27-alpine`	80	none

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
`orders`	`NODE_ENV`	Preset in the template
`payments`	`NODE_ENV`	Preset in the template

Passwords and keys marked as generated are created for you when the app is deployed and stored as secrets. Values are not shown here.

Deploy Nginx Reverse Proxy (Multi-Backend) with Levelrail

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select Nginx Reverse Proxy (Multi-Backend). Review the Compose body and deploy. With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy nginx-multi-backend-starter --name my-nginx-multi-backend-starter

See the service template catalog for how templates work, and Getting started if you have not installed Levelrail yet.

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Self-host Nginx Reverse Proxy (Multi-Backend) with Docker

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Nginx Reverse Proxy (Multi-Backend) with Levelrail

More Starter Kits templates

​Services, ports and volumes

​Environment variables

​Deploy Nginx Reverse Proxy (Multi-Backend) with Levelrail

​More Starter Kits templates

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Nginx Reverse Proxy (Multi-Backend) with Levelrail

More Starter Kits templates