ikwerre-dev/pxxl-proxy-system

Pxxl Proxy is an open-source reverse proxy written in Rust, positioned as an alternative to tools like Traefik or Nginx. A reverse proxy sits in front of your web servers and handles incoming traffic, routing requests to the right backend service, managing TLS encryption (HTTPS), applying security rules, and balancing load across multiple servers. The Phase 1 implementation covers HTTP routing, Docker-label-based service discovery (meaning it automatically detects which containers to route to by reading labels you attach to Docker containers), local TLS certificate generation, per-domain IP blocking and rate limiting, offline GeoIP country lookups for analytics and geo-based routing, route analytics, and multiple load-balancing algorithms including round-robin, weighted round-robin, least-connections, and latency-aware selection. It also supports WebSockets, CORS rules, custom headers, circuit breakers (automatically stopping traffic to failing backends), sticky sessions, and traffic mirroring. You can install it by running the provided install script, which sets up a Docker Compose stack and installs a pxxl command-line tool for managing the service. Configuration is done through a TOML file and can also be managed through an admin API protected by Redis-backed bearer tokens. Metrics are exported in Prometheus format and viewable in Grafana dashboards. Persistent data including analytics, logs, and tokens is stored in local data/ folders that survive restarts. The admin API, Prometheus metrics, and internal databases are bound to localhost by default and not exposed publicly. The full README is longer than what was provided.