Month: October 2023

Benefit from running your own docker registry is cost and privacy. But in order to use it in various places you need to secure its connection with SSL/TLS certificates. In case you have only ZeroSSL or LE certificates it can be difficult to maintain both you certificate at ACME/HAProxy leve in pfSense and secondary also in docker registry somewhere else.

Fortunately there is solution for that.

Add your docker registry domain to ACME certificate enrollment as usual. Run docker registry without giving it certificate. Instead configure a domain pointing at pfSense, preferably using non-WAN address. Next configure proxy-pass at Nginx level:

server {
  listen 80; 
  server_name registry.somedomain.com;
  ignore_invalid_headers off;
  client_max_body_size 0;
  proxy_buffering off;
 
  location / {
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/registry-somedomain-com.log;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
    chunked_transfer_encoding off;
    proxy_pass http://a.b.c.d:5000/;
  }
}

Most important part of it is to set X-Forwarded-Proto to https. Now you can use docker registry which runs locally and forget about setting up certificate renewal at registry level itself.