cwhite-simple-proxy 0.1.0

Deploy proxy servers to cloud providers with ease

Simple Proxy

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Usage

Before you deploy your proxy servers, you must generate a password hash for them to use for authentication. This is made simple with the given helper script in Python.

$ python3 gen_hash.py

Enter your desired password, and it will output the hash you need to use for deployment.

Here is an example command that will give you 5 proxy servers backed by AWS Fargate behind a load balancer:

$ python3 simple_proxy_init.py run --count 5 --env PROXY_USER=default --env PROXY_PASSWORD_SHA256=<your hash> --region us-west-2

This command will:

• Create an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that's publicly accessible
• Deploy 5 ECS Fargate tasks protected by security groups (only accept traffic from ALB)
• Automatically register all tasks with the load balancer
• Return a single URL that distributes requests across all proxy instances

The proxy servers are NOT directly accessible from the internet - all traffic must go through the load balancer URL.

When you are done, run the following to delete all the resources you are consuming:

$ python3 simple_proxy_init.py cleanup

Testing

There is a short test script to ensure your proxy is both working and sending requests from a different ip than your own. You can run this test with:

$ pytest

Note that you must first set the value of your remote server in .test.env (see the template provided in this repository).