Nginx

This section will cover deploying the Nginx using Docker.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Nginx Setup

Introduction

Nginx can act as a reverse proxy, load balancer, web server, and more. This section will cover setting Nginx as a web server using Docker.

Nginx Setup

We can use the following with Docker Compose.

services:
	image: nginx
	restart: always
	ports:
		- "8080:80"
	volumes:
		- ./web:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro

The above setup will expose the website on port 8080. It will use the /web directory on the host to store the content for the website and map it to /usr/share/nginx/html in the container.

Store all content in the /web directory to be hosted. To access the site, navigate to http://<IP>:8080.

References:

• https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx