niginx.docker

Very basic nginx webserver in docker container

Introduction

Basic nginx webserver in a docker container.

Getting started

In powershell run go.bat

.\go.bat

This was tested with windows with docker and powershell.

This batch script does:

• clean up of any existing images and containers (handy when you run the script many times)
• create the nginx image with a Dockerfile
• run the image
• shows the running containers

• you can the open a web browser to look at the web page

firefox.exe localhost:<port number>

• pauses, providing an oportnity to Ctrl-C, to end the batch file if you want the container to continue to run
• does a clean up - stopping and removing the container

port number

This may be found in the output from the docker ps command: 0.0.0.0:32778->80/tcp mynginx3

In this case 32778.

A random port number is asigned from range by docker. This maps the port 80 from inside the container to this external one.

Background

• Wanted to learn how to do this
• Couldn't find any exmaples that showed this level detail
• Hope that someone else will find this useful

Issues

• Does not use my nginx.conf file (commented out)
• Not ready for production (no loggings, ssh access via another container etc)
• Lots of configuration commented out

Versioning

When this becomes relavent... We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

#Reference

[Deploying nginx with docker] (https://www.nginx.com/blog/deploying-nginx-nginx-plus-docker/)

Copyright

Author: mikey-no 2017 (no comerical use)