Service-managed TLS

This topic describes how to deploy a Swarm service wherein the service manages the TLS connection by encrypting traffic from users to your Swarm service.

Deploy your Swarm service using the following example docker-compose.yml file:

version: "3.2"

services:
  demo:
    image: mirantiseng/docker-demo
    command: --tls-cert=/run/secrets/cert.pem --tls-key=/run/secrets/key.pem
    deploy:
      replicas: 1
      labels:
        com.docker.lb.hosts: app.example.org
        com.docker.lb.network: demo-network
        com.docker.lb.port: 8080
        com.docker.lb.ssl_passthrough: "true"
    environment:
      METADATA: end-to-end-TLS
    networks:
      - demo-network
    secrets:
      - source: app.example.org.cert
        target: /run/secrets/cert.pem
      - source: app.example.org.key
        target: /run/secrets/key.pem

networks:
  demo-network:
    driver: overlay
secrets:
  app.example.org.cert:
    file: ./app.example.org.cert
  app.example.org.key:
    file: ./app.example.org.key

This updates the service to start using the secrets with the private key and certificate and it labels the service with com.docker.lb.ssl_passthrough: true, thus configuring the proxy service such that TLS traffic for app.example.org is passed to the service.

Since the connection is fully encrypted from end-to-end, the proxy service cannot add metadata such as version information or the request ID to the response headers.