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Day 28 - A cleaner front door for public HTTPS

We put a reverse proxy in front of the public edge so TLS and routing sit in one place, with a maintenance path ready, while Cloud URLs stayed the same.

On 5 October we changed how public HTTPS hits the KM0 host. A reverse proxy now sits at the front door for ports 80 and 443. Nginx still does the work it is good at; the edge is easier to reason about.

What that means for you

  • Same public URLs. Cloud, the marketing site, and the rest keep the names you already use.
  • TLS termination and routing live in one place at the edge.
  • We can flip a maintenance page without rewriting every site by hand.

Why bother

Fewer surprises when we cut over identity or add a service. The reader never needs the plumbing; operators need a door that opens the same way every time.

Status

If your bookmarks still open, you are done. Problems with HTTPS that day: contact.

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