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Secure services with TLS

This topic describes two different methods for securing your services with Transport Layer Security (TLS):

Method

Description

Proxy-managed TLS

All traffic between users and the proxy is encrypted, but the traffic between the proxy and your Swarm service is not secure.

Service-managed TLS

The end-to-end traffic is encrypted and the proxy service allows TLS traffic to pass through unchanged.