nginx.md

NGINX with DOCKER

Summary

• Serving Static Content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Reverse Proxy (load balancing ): forward requests from clients to backend servers which handle the requests.
• API Gateway(distributing traffic): Acts as a single entry point for all API requests and distributing traffic
• SSL/TLS Termination: it decrypts incoming traffic, inspects it, and then re-encrypts it before sending it to the backend servers.
• Caching: NGINX can also be used as an HTTP cache, which can improve website performance by caching frequently requested content and serving it directly from memory
• load balancing All the above can be set in Config: etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Pre-Req:

• Docker is already installed in the system.
• Note:By default nginx runs on port 80

Example 1

	-------------------------- nginx.sh ----------------------------
	cd ~/Desktop
	mkdir nginx
	cd nginx
	echo '\<html\>\<body\> hi\</body\>\</html\>' >> test2.html 
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	docker run -it --rm -d -p 8080:80 --name web -v $PWD:/usr/share/nginx/html nginx

open browser http://localhost:8080/test2.html docker stop container_id

Example 2

docker run -p 8000:80 --name nginx_test nginx:latest

• open browser
• open link localhost:8000 (You should be able to see the html page)
• ctrl+c (to quit)
• docker rm nginx_test