Workstation WSL Proxy: API Gateway, CDN & Agent Edge [INT]
Workstation WSL Proxy (WSLProxy) is Workstation’s open API gateway and CDN edge control plane — live routing, WAF, cache, multi-POP DNS, and MCP for agents. Product page: /wsl-proxy. Deep dive: long article.
Bottom line. Stop treating the edge as a static nginx.conf. Workstation WSL Proxy evaluates rules every request from JSON/MCP configs — proxy, redirect, WAF, cache, canary — and only reloads nginx when listen/SSL blocks change. Site: wslproxy.org · repo: github.com/bwalia/wslproxy.
What it is
WSLProxy is a dynamic API gateway and reverse proxy on OpenResty. Operators manage virtual hosts, rules, WAF, cache, traffic splits, and edge POPs from an Admin UI, REST API, MCP tools, or wslproxy-cli. It is built for multi-POP edges, GitOps-style config, and AI agents — the same stack that fronts workstation.co.uk traffic in production patterns.
Complete API gateway + CDN
- Routing: path / IP / country / JWT / cookie match → proxy, redirect, HTML, CAPTCHA.
- Traffic: weighted, RR, canary, sticky, least-conn; promote and rollback backends.
- WAF: policy packs, anomaly scoring, monitor/block, events API.
- CDN cache: edge static cache, optional Docker blob cache, Varnish hooks.
- POPs + DNS: declare edges; Cloudflare A-record provisioning with guardrails.
- Control plane: React Admin, Swagger, MCP (Claude/Cursor), CLI image on GHCR.
Agents Gateway & MCP Gateway (roadmap)
Workstation is extending the same edge into the agent era:
- MCP Gateway (in progress): governed front door for external MCP servers — auth bridging, tool allow/deny, audit of
tools/call, per-tool rate limits. - Agents Gateway (in progress): policy and observability for multi-agent traffic through the Workstation WSL Proxy edge.
- MCP management (available now): drive WSLProxy’s own Admin surface from Claude/Cursor via MCP tools.
Where to start
- Open wslproxy.org and the Swagger API.
- Clone github.com/bwalia/wslproxy and run Compose or Helm for k3s.
- Read the technical article or the product page.
Published by Workstation.
Product site: https://wslproxy.com/