# Reverse proxy

A reverse proxy is an application that is upstream of back-end application and
forwards clients to those.

## Software that can be used as reverse proxy

The following software can be used as reverse proxy.

- [Traefik](./traefik.md) is a http and https reverse proxy with a special
  integration of infrastructure components (e.g. [Docker](./docker.md))
- [NGINX](./nginx.md) is a webserver that can be also used as a reverse proxy