SSL Redirect

This docker container will redirect any traffic coming on to it from HTTP to HTTPS.

How to use:

• Deploy
• Make public as front controller for your sites in HTTP only

How you accomplish this will vary from place to place. For instance, my use case is

• Kubernetes
• Kong docker (not kong-ingress)

I have a LoadBalancer service pushing traffic into Kong from the outside world. Kong's deployment contains one pod with two containers: Kong and SSL Redirect. The LoadBalancer service simply binds its port 80 to wherever you configure SSL redirect to.

Whyyyyy

I made this little container to get around Kong's inability to upgrade HTTP connections to HTTPS - there are third party plugins for this, but since I run Kong in Kubernetes there's no easy way to add these plugins without needing to re-build the containers and publish them to a container registry.