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It's a simple way of running something quickly and without touching the rest of your system (if you already have Docker installed)

Anyway, the proxy is just an nginx with a custom config file. You can check that file and just add it yourself to an nginx you manage, probably with little changes.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/main/data...

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It's a bit odd to use a custom docker image, rather than the one maintained by nginx Inc though:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/main/ngin...

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https://github.com/nginxinc/docker-nginx

For one, this is 5 versions behind (1.18 vs 1.23).

In general seems caddy or haproxy might be a better fit - but nginx is a perfectly fine choice I suppose.

> It's a simple way of running something quickly and without touching the rest of your system

Providing a statically linked binary is even simpler, without all that extra complexity that comes with docker.

This project wraps existing software (e.g. nginx) to function. It's not as simple as providing a binary.

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