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+# Example of a static provider within docker compose
+
+
+The example under `custom` shows how to make a web-serving container built on top of reproxy image and routing api request to another container directly, without the actual docker discovery.
+
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+# example of a Dockerfile using reproxy as a base for the custom container
+FROM klakegg/hugo:0.83.1-ext-alpine as build
+
+ADD . /build
+WORKDIR /build
+RUN hugo --minify
+
+FROM ghcr.io/umputun/reproxy:latest
+COPY --from=build /build/public /www
+EXPOSE 8080
+USER app
+ENTRYPOINT ["/srv/reproxy"]
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+version: '2.4'
+
+services:
+
+  website:
+    image: somtehing/hugo-site
+    restart: always
+    container_name: website
+    hostname: website
+    logging: &default_logging
+      driver: json-file
+      options:
+        max-size: "10m"
+        max-file: "5"
+    ports:
+      - "80:8080"
+      - "443:8443"
+    volumes:
+      - ./var/ssl:/srv/var/ssl
+      - ./var/logs:/srv/var/logs
+    environment:
+      - TZ=America/Chicago
+      - GZIP=true
+      - MAX_SIZE=256K
+      - LOGGER_ENABLED=true
+      - LOGGER_FILE=/srv/var/logs/access.log
+      - SSL_TYPE=auto
+      - SSL_ACME_EMAIL=me@example.com
+      - SSL_ACME_FQDN=site.example.com
+      - SSL_ACME_LOCATION=/srv/var/ssl
+      - HEADER=
+          X-Frame-Options:SAMEORIGIN,
+          X-XSS-Protection:1; mode=block;,
+          X-Content-Type-Options:nosniff,
+          Strict-Transport-Security:max-age=31536000,
+          Referrer-Policy:no-referrer,
+          Content-Security-Policy:default-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline';
+      - ASSETS_LOCATION=/www
+      - ASSETS_CACHE=48h,text/html:1m
+      - STATIC_ENABLED=true
+      - STATIC_RULES=*,/api/email/(.*),http://email-sender:8080/$$1,http://email-sender:8080/ping
+
+  email-sender:
+    image: somtehing/email-sender
+    restart: always
+    container_name: email-sender
+    hostname: email-sender
+    logging: *default_logging
+    ports:
+      - "8080"
+