Couper is designed to support developers building and operating API-driven Web projects by offering security and observability functionality in a frontend gateway component.
For additional information, tutorials and documentation please visit the couper repository.
Couper requires a configuration file which have to be provided on start. See our documentation how to configure couper.
This image contains a basic configuration to serve files from /htdocs
directory.
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 -v `pwd`:/htdocs avenga/couper
The entrypoint of the image is the /couper
binary. The command is run
.
Therefore docker run avenga/couper
runs /couper run -d /conf
.
The directory argument allows you to mount multiple configuration files to the /conf
directory.
You could also use other commands directly:
docker run avenga/couper version
docker run avenga/couper run -watch -p 8081
Variable | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
COUPER_FILE | couper.hcl |
Path to the configuration file. |
COUPER_FILE_DIRECTORY | "" |
Path to the configuration files directory. |
COUPER_ACCEPT_FORWARDED_URL | "" |
Which X-Forwarded-* request headers should be accepted to change the request variables url , origin , protocol , host , port . Comma-separated list of values. Valid values: proto , host , port . |
COUPER_DEFAULT_PORT | 8080 |
Sets the default port to the given value and does not override explicit [host:port] configurations from file. |
COUPER_HEALTH_PATH | /healthz |
Path for health-check requests for all servers and ports. |
COUPER_HTTPS_DEV_PROXY | "" |
List of tls port mappings to define the tls listen port and the target one. A self-signed certificate will be generated on the fly based on given hostname. |
COUPER_NO_PROXY_FROM_ENV | false |
Disables the connect hop to configured proxy via environment. |
COUPER_SECURE_COOKIES | "" |
If set to "strip" , the Secure flag is removed from all Set-Cookie HTTP header fields. |
COUPER_WATCH | false |
Set to true to watch for configuration file changes. |
COUPER_WATCH_RETRIES | 5 |
Maximal retry count for configuration reloads which could not bind the configured port. |
COUPER_WATCH_RETRY_DELAY | 500ms |
Delay duration before next attempt if an error occurs. |
COUPER_XFH | false |
Global configurations which uses the Forwarded-Host header instead of the request host. |
COUPER_CA_FILE | "" |
Option for adding the given PEM encoded ca-certificate to the existing system certificate pool for all outgoing connections. |
COUPER_BETA_METRICS | false |
Option to enable the prometheus metrics exporter. |
COUPER_BETA_METRICS_PORT | 9090 |
Prometheus exporter listen port. |
COUPER_BETA_SERVICE_NAME | couper |
The service name which applies to the service_name metric labels. |
COUPER_REQUEST_ID_ACCEPT_FROM_HEADER | "" |
Name of a client request HTTP header field that transports the request.id which Couper takes for logging and transport to the backend (if configured). |
COUPER_REQUEST_ID_BACKEND_HEADER | Couper-Request-ID |
Name of a HTTP header field which Couper uses to transport the request.id to the backend. |
COUPER_REQUEST_ID_CLIENT_HEADER | Couper-Request-ID |
Name of a HTTP header field which Couper uses to transport the request.id to the client. |
COUPER_REQUEST_ID_FORMAT | common |
If set to uuid4 a rfc4122 uuid is used for request.id and related log fields. |
COUPER_TIMING_IDLE_TIMEOUT | 60s |
The maximum amount of time to wait for the next request on client connections when keep-alives are enabled. |
COUPER_TIMING_READ_HEADER_TIMEOUT | 10s |
The amount of time allowed to read client request headers. |
COUPER_TIMING_SHUTDOWN_DELAY | 0 |
The amount of time the server is marked as unhealthy until calling server close finally. |
COUPER_TIMING_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT | 0 |
The maximum amount of time allowed to close the server with all running connections. |
COUPER_LOG_FORMAT | common |
Can be set to json output which is the container default. |
COUPER_LOG_LEVEL | info |
Set the log-level to one of: info , panic , fatal , error , warn , debug , trace . |
COUPER_LOG_PARENT_FIELD | "" |
An option for json log format to add all log fields as child properties. |
COUPER_LOG_PRETTY | false |
Global option for json log format which pretty prints with basic key coloring. |
COUPER_LOG_TYPE_VALUE | couper_daemon |
Value for the runtime log field type . |
COUPER_ACCESS_LOG_REQUEST_HEADERS | User-Agent, Accept, Referer |
A comma separated list of header names whose values should be logged. |
COUPER_ACCESS_LOG_RESPONSE_HEADERS | Cache-Control, Content-Encoding, Content-Type, Location |
A comma separated list of header names whose values should be logged. |
COUPER_ACCESS_LOG_TYPE_VALUE | couper_access |
Value for the log field type . |
COUPER_BACKEND_LOG_REQUEST_HEADERS | User-Agent, Accept, Referer |
A comma separated list of header names whose values should be logged. |
COUPER_BACKEND_LOG_RESPONSE_HEADERS | Cache-Control, Content-Encoding, Content-Type, Location |
A comma separated list of header names whose values should be logged. |
COUPER_BACKEND_LOG_TYPE_VALUE | couper_backend |
Value for the log field type . |