SYSTEMD-SOCKET-PROXYD(8) | systemd-socket-proxyd | SYSTEMD-SOCKET-PROXYD(8) |
systemd-socket-proxyd - Bidirectionally proxy local sockets to another (possibly remote) socket
systemd-socket-proxyd [OPTIONS...] HOST:PORT
systemd-socket-proxyd [OPTIONS...] UNIX-DOMAIN-SOCKET-PATH
systemd-socket-proxyd is a generic socket-activated network socket forwarder proxy daemon for IPv4, IPv6 and UNIX stream sockets. It may be used to bi-directionally forward traffic from a local listening socket to a local or remote destination socket.
One use of this tool is to provide socket activation support for services that do not natively support socket activation. On behalf of the service to activate, the proxy inherits the socket from systemd, accepts each client connection, opens a connection to a configured server for each client, and then bidirectionally forwards data between the two.
This utility's behavior is similar to socat(1). The main differences for systemd-socket-proxyd are support for socket activation with "Accept=no" and an event-driven design that scales better with the number of connections.
The following options are understood:
-h, --help
--version
--connections-max=, -c
--exit-idle-time=
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
Use two services with a dependency and no namespace isolation.
Example 1. proxy-to-nginx.socket
[Socket] ListenStream=80 [Install] WantedBy=sockets.target
Example 2. proxy-to-nginx.service
[Unit] Requires=nginx.service After=nginx.service Requires=proxy-to-nginx.socket After=proxy-to-nginx.socket [Service] ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-socket-proxyd /run/nginx/socket PrivateTmp=yes PrivateNetwork=yes
Example 3. nginx.conf
[...] server {
listen unix:/run/nginx/socket;
[...]
Example 4. Enabling the proxy
# systemctl enable --now proxy-to-nginx.socket $ curl http://localhost:80/
If nginx.service has StopWhenUnneeded= set, then passing --exit-idle-time= to systemd-socket-proxyd allows both services to stop during idle periods.
Similar as above, but runs the socket proxy and the main service in the same private namespace, assuming that nginx.service has PrivateTmp= and PrivateNetwork= set, too.
Example 5. proxy-to-nginx.socket
[Socket] ListenStream=80 [Install] WantedBy=sockets.target
Example 6. proxy-to-nginx.service
[Unit] Requires=nginx.service After=nginx.service Requires=proxy-to-nginx.socket After=proxy-to-nginx.socket JoinsNamespaceOf=nginx.service [Service] ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-socket-proxyd 127.0.0.1:8080 PrivateTmp=yes PrivateNetwork=yes
Example 7. nginx.conf
[...] server {
listen 8080;
[...]
Example 8. Enabling the proxy
# systemctl enable --now proxy-to-nginx.socket $ curl http://localhost:80/
systemd(1), systemd.socket(5), systemd.service(5), systemctl(1), socat(1), nginx(1), curl(1)
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