Setting Up a Web Proxy Using Squid and Docker

2017-02-16

My company has enforced an HTTP proxy requirement on my work computer. That effectively makes the computer unusable for web related work unless I hook it up to the corporate network using a VPN connection. So a local Squid proxy to the rescue!

I create a local domain using the same naming scheme that my work has, create a DNS entry mirroring the proxy host and setup a basic caching Squid proxy.

I choose this setup: https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-squid and forked the repo to my own GitHub account (https://github.com/mry/docker-squid and added my own customizations.

Create the Docker image

docker build -t emryl/squid github.com/mry/docker-squid

docker login

Push image to Docker Hub

docker push

Running using docker-compose

I set it up to run on my Synology NAS instance. I’ve create the neccessary folder structure according to the volume listing in the docker-compose.yml file.

When first run, it will download the image I uploaded in the previous step. On first run, omit the -d (for daemon) to see the container starts up without issues.