A Dockerfile to build a statically linked nginx (for educational purpose)

Dockerfile

FROM alpine as build

RUN apk add --no-cache gcc make musl-dev
RUN wget -O /tmp/nginx.tar.gz http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.13.6.tar.gz && \
    mkdir /tmp/nginx && \
    tar xf /tmp/nginx.tar.gz -C /tmp/nginx --strip-components=1 && \
    cd /tmp/nginx && \
    ./configure --prefix=/ --with-cc=/usr/bin/cc --with-cc-opt="-static -static-libgcc" --with-ld-opt="-static" --with-ipv6 --with-poll_module --without-http_rewrite_module --without-http_gzip_module && \
    make -j5


FROM scratch

COPY --from=build /tmp/nginx/objs/nginx /
COPY nginx.conf /

VOLUME /logs

EXPOSE 80

CMD ["/nginx", "-c", "/nginx.conf", "-g", "daemon off;"]