For your self-hosted systems there are likely hosts you don’t want exposed to the wilds of ‘The Internet’, even for outgoing traffic, but you still want to be able to do package updates. Here is how you do that using NGINX as a proxy on a host on an isolated network and is also on an internet connected network.
Tag: package management
CentOS 7 Partial Mirrors and Custom Repositories
Often you don’t need a full mirror of CentOS and/or only want a small set of packages from other repositories such as EPEL, so to save bandwidth, space, and time we give a working example of a partial mirror and custom repository setup.