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Nginx 1.12 server and a reverse proxy server Docker image

This container image includes Nginx 1.12 server and a reverse server for OpenShift and general usage. Users can choose RHEL based image. The RHEL image is available in the Red Hat Container Catalog as registry.access.redhat.com/rhscl/nginx-112-rhel7.

Description

Nginx is a web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. The container image provides a containerized packaging of the nginx 1.12 daemon. The image can be used as a base image for other applications based on nginx 1.12 web server. Nginx server image can be extended using source-to-image tool.

Usage

To build a simple sample-app application using standalone S2I and then run the resulting image with Docker execute:

  • For RHEL based image $ s2i build https://github.com/sclorg/nginx-container.git --context-dir=1.12/test/test-app/ rhscl/nginx-112-rhel7 nginx-sample-app $ docker run -p 8080:8080 nginx-sample-app

  • For CentOS based image $ s2i build https://github.com/sclorg/nginx-container.git --context-dir=1.12/test/test-app/ centos/nginx-112-centos7 nginx-sample-app $ docker run -p 8080:8080 nginx-sample-app

Accessing the application:

$ curl 127.0.0.1:8080

S2I build support

Nginx server image can be extended using S2I tool (see Usage section). S2I build folder structure:

Folder name Description
./nginx-cfg/*.conf Should contain all nginx configuration we want to include into image
./nginx-default-cfg/*.conf Contains any nginx config snippets to include in the default server block
./ Should contain nginx application source code

Environment variables and volumes

The nginx container image supports the following configuration variable, which can be set by using the -e option with the docker run command:

Variable name Description
NGINX_LOG_TO_VOLUME When NGINX_LOG_TO_VOLUME is set, nginx logs into /var/opt/rh/rh-nginx112/log/nginx/

Troubleshooting

By default, nginx logs into standard output, so the log is available in the container log. The log can be examined by running:

docker logs <container>

If NGINX_LOG_TO_VOLUME variable is set, nginx logs into /var/opt/rh/rh-nginx112/log/nginx/, which can be mounted to host system using the Docker volumes.

See also

Dockerfile and other sources for this container image are available on https://github.com/sclorg/nginx-container. In that repository, Dockerfile for CentOS is called Dockerfile, Dockerfile for RHEL is called Dockerfile.rhel7.