basecamp/thruster

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1157 stars · 58 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Thruster is an HTTP/2 proxy written in Go that wraps the Puma webserver to provide production-ready serving of Rails applications. It offers automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, HTTP caching of public assets, X-Sendfile support, and compression with near-zero configuration.

Use cases

• serve a rails app directly on the open internet from a single container
• add http/2 support to a puma webserver
• automatically provision tls certificates with lets encrypt
• cache public assets in front of a rails app
• manage puma as a single process in docker without a process manager
• serve static files efficiently with x-sendfile and compression

When to choose

• deploying simple Rails apps in a single container exposed directly to the internet
• you want zero-config HTTP/2 and automatic TLS without a separate reverse proxy
• you need Puma process management in containerized environments

When to avoid

• you already run behind nginx, Caddy, or a cloud load balancer handling TLS and caching
• you need advanced proxy features like rate limiting, routing rules, or authentication
• your app is not Ruby/Puma-based

Facets

service · maturity active

http-server proxy caching security web-development backend self-hosted self-hosted http2 tls lets-encrypt puma rails reverse-proxy x-sendfile zero-config devops linux macos docker

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