GitHub Open Source Project Thruster: Simplifying Rails App Deployment with an HTTP/2 Proxy
2024-12-26
Thruster is an HTTP/2 proxy designed to simplify production deployments of Rails applications. It works alongside the Puma web server, providing features like HTTP/2 support, automatic TLS certificate management with Let's Encrypt, basic HTTP caching, and X-Sendfile support with compression. It aims for zero configuration; simply setting the TLS_DOMAIN environment variable enables TLS, otherwise it runs in HTTP-only mode. Thruster also wraps the Puma process, making it ideal for containerized environments. Originally created for the ONCE project, it's now used for simpler deployments of other Rails applications.
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