NGINX in Docker
This project is mainly used for quickly creating reverse proxies for other services
New location contexts can loaded, or copied into the running container at this location: /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf.
When the config has been reloaded by nginx: nginx -s reload then it will be applied
Images with different tags have been uploaded to Docker Hub for specific services such as Jenkins: bobcrutchley/nginx:jenkins.
These images have a reverse proxy already configured for that service, as long as the service contactable and running on its default port.
For instance the bobcrutchley/nginx:jenkins image contains this location context:
location / {
proxy_pass http://jenkins:8080/;
}This will proxy any requests on / to the Jenkins host which is useful in setups with docker-compose and Kubernetes