Introducing BareProxy, the Reverse Proxy That Explains Itself

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most applications use a small part of nginx. They terminate TLS, route by host and path, spread requests over backends that are up, change config without dropping traffic, and sometimes need to know what happened to one request. BareProxy is a reverse proxy for that part, with a core small enough to read in an afternoon.

The whole config for a site with an API, a web front end and a www redirect is 21 lines. A newcomer can read it in five minutes, and nothing in it depends on a precedence order: rules are tried from the top, and the first match wins.

BareProxy Modules: Nine Add-Ons Around a Bare Core

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

BareProxy Core does six things: proxying, TLS, routing, backend health, config changes and request tracing. Everything else is a module, compiled in only when you want it. A Bare build carries the core alone. A Full build carries every module.

There are nine: Static, Compress, Cache, Limit, Auth, Split, Guard, Export and Fleet. Each plugs in at a fixed point in the request, before routing, as a rule’s action, around the backend call, on the response, on the record or on config changes.

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Introducing BareProxy, the Reverse Proxy That Explains Itself

BareProxy Modules: Nine Add-Ons Around a Bare Core