Nginx recent release finally has native support for gRPC. It is a nice addition to existing tools such as Linkerd, Traefik, Envoy etc, but with much simpler configuration. 😄If you have tried Linkerd (which has an awesome dashboard!), you would definitely have agreed.
To test it out, we have a simple gRPC Echo service that will ingeniously return the text that is receives.
Our docker-compose.yml file would look like this:
We have two gRPC servers running, a client and nginx.
The nginx.conf is rather simple:
Running docker-compose up -d will give us the following output.
As you can see, the client manage to call the servers with different hostnames.
You can find the full repository here: https://github.com/alextanhongpin/grpc-nginx-docker
😄 Happy coding!
