Andrea Chiarelli published this interesting guide focusing on building a reverse proxy in .NET Core. .NET Core is a free and open-source web framework, offering higher performance than .NET. It is developed by Microsoft and the community.You will learn how to use .NET Core to implement a reverse proxy to overcome specific needs.
A reverse proxy is a special type of proxy server that hides the target server to the client. The client requests a resource to the proxy server which retrieves it from another server and provides it to the client.
Among the various elements of a network infrastructure (such as DNS servers, firewalls, proxies and similar), reverse proxies gained a lot of popularity due to the growth in popularity of microservice architectures.
The explanation for following is provided:
- Why use a reverse proxy (load balancing, URL rewriting, static content serving, API gateway, combine multiple resources into one)
- Why implement a custom reverse proxy
- Implementing a reverse proxy in C#
Instructions include setting up the project with .NET Core. And all code needed is in GitHub repository linked in the article. Accomplished!
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