RSS Bridge

Do you hate having to access multiple sites to view specific content? RSS-Bridge can convert content from a wide variety of websites (such as Reddit, Facebook, Twitter) so that it can be viewed in a structured and consistent way, all from one place (Your feed reader)

RSS-Bridge Screenshot

RSS Bridge Requirements

Ingredients

Already deployed:

Docker swarm cluster with persistent shared storage
Traefik configured per design
DNS entry for the hostname you intend to use (or a wildcard), pointed to your keepalived IP

Traefik Forward Auth or Authelia to secure your Traefik-exposed services with an additional layer of authentication

Preparation

Setup data locations

First we create a directory to hold the data which RSS Bridge will serve:

mkdir /var/data/config/rssbridge
cd /var/data/config/rssbridge

RSS Bridge Docker Swarm config

Create a docker swarm config file in docker-compose syntax (v3), something like the example below:

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version: '3'
services:
  rss:
    image: rssbridge/rss-bridge:latest
    volumes:
      - /var/data/config/rssbridge:/config
    deploy:
      labels:
        # traefik common
        - traefik.enable=true
        - traefik.docker.network=traefik_public

        # traefikv1
        - traefik.frontend.rule=Host:rssbridge.example.com
        - traefik.port=80     

        # traefikv2
        - "traefik.http.routers.rssbridge.rule=Host(`rssbridge.example.com`)"
        - "traefik.http.services.rssbridge.loadbalancer.server.port=80" 
    networks:
      - traefik_public

networks:
  traefik_public:
    external: true

Serving

Deploy the bridge!

Launch the RSS Bridge stack by running docker stack deploy rssbridge -c <path -to-docker-compose.yml>

Chef's notes 📓

The inclusion of RSS Bridge was due to the efforts of @bencey in Discord (Thanks Ben!) ↩
This delicious recipe is well-paired with an RSS reader such as Miniflux ↩

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