jadaptive/aegis-gateway repository overview

⁠Aegis Gateway

Free, self-hosted reverse proxy with automatic Let's Encrypt certificate management.

Aegis Gateway makes it easy to expose web applications and services through a secure reverse proxy without spending your life managing proxy configuration and TLS certificates.

Run it in your own infrastructure, point Aegis at your services, and let it handle the gateway and certificates.

Free. Self-hosted. No artificial limits.

⁠Reverse proxy without the configuration headache

Reverse proxies are incredibly useful. Configuring and maintaining them doesn't need to be complicated.

Aegis Gateway provides a simple way to route incoming web traffic to applications and services running elsewhere in your infrastructure.

Add a host, choose the service it should forward to, and let Aegis handle the proxy configuration.

⁠What can it do?

Aegis Gateway lets you:

• Reverse proxy web applications and services
• Route different hostnames to different backend services
• Automatically obtain Let's Encrypt TLS certificates
• Manage certificate renewal
• Provide HTTPS access to services running over HTTP
• Manage your proxy configuration through a simple interface
• Run the entire gateway inside your own infrastructure

⁠Why Aegis Gateway?

⁠Easy reverse proxy management

Configure where traffic should go without manually maintaining complex web server configuration files.

Aegis is designed to make common reverse proxy tasks straightforward.

⁠Automatic Let's Encrypt certificates

Aegis integrates with Let's Encrypt to obtain and manage TLS certificates for your services.

That means less time creating certificates, configuring them and remembering when they need renewing.

⁠HTTPS for your applications

Put Aegis in front of applications and services and provide a secure HTTPS endpoint without requiring every backend application to manage its own public TLS configuration.

⁠Self-hosted

Run Aegis Gateway inside your own infrastructure.

You control where it runs, which applications it exposes and how traffic reaches your services.

⁠Free and unlimited

Aegis Gateway is free to deploy and use.

There are no artificial limits designed to force you into a paid tier as you add more services.

Use it. Scale it.

⁠How does it work?

Aegis sits between users and the web applications or services you want to expose.

Internet / Network
        |
        v
+-----------------+
|  Aegis Gateway  |
|   HTTPS + TLS   |
+-----------------+
        |
        v
+-----------------+
| Backend Service |
+-----------------+

Aegis accepts the incoming connection, handles HTTPS and forwards the request to the configured backend service.

Multiple applications can be exposed through a single Aegis deployment using different hostnames.

⁠Who is it for?

Aegis Gateway is useful for:

• Developers running self-hosted applications
• DevOps and infrastructure teams
• Home labs
• Small businesses
• Organisations running internal web applications
• Anyone who wants HTTPS without manually managing certificates
• Anyone who wants a straightforward self-hosted reverse proxy

⁠Example uses

Use Aegis Gateway to:

• Put HTTPS in front of a self-hosted application
• Expose several applications using different hostnames
• Proxy traffic to services running on different servers or ports
• Automatically obtain and renew Let's Encrypt certificates
• Provide a single gateway into a collection of web services
• Replace manually maintained reverse proxy configurations

⁠Docker Setup

Add your current Aegis Docker run or Docker Compose configuration here.

⁠Documentation & Community

Full documentation is available at:

https://docs.jadaptive.com⁠

Learn more about Jadaptive and our free, self-hosted infrastructure and security software:

https://jadaptive.com⁠

Questions, feedback and community support:

https://www.reddit.com/r/jadaptive/⁠

⁠More from Jadaptive

Aegis Gateway is part of Jadaptive's growing collection of free, self-hosted infrastructure and security software, including:

• Password Express
• Nodal VPN
• DropPort
• Maverick SSH MCP
• SSH Teams

Explore the Jadaptive Docker Hub namespace to discover more.

The software is the gift. Our expertise is the paywall.

Use it. Scale it. No artificial limits.