jonjack/alpinginx repository overview

⁠Minimal docker image for running Nginx on Alpine Linux.

Use as a base for your own Nginx projects - I shall endeavor to keep this image tracking the latest releases.

⁠Specs

⁠Resources

• Alpine⁠ - small footprint OS
• Nginx⁠ - non-blocking event-driven HTTP Server

⁠Usage

After executing the following - and assuming port 80 was free on your host - you should be able to view the default Nginx welcome page at the IP of your host.

docker run -d -p 80:80 jonjack/alpinginx

The image exposes the following ports:

80 8080 443

⁠Mounting a Volume

Mount a volume so that you can push your own content into the Nginx home path.

docker run -d -p 80:80 -v /host/path/nginx/html:/app/nginx/html jonjack/alpinginx

Content put into /host/path/nginx/html on the host machine should then be accessible to the Nginx document root at /app/nginx/html.

⁠Why Another Image ?

There are a few Nginx on Alpine images already, but I had some specific use case of my own:-

• verifies the integrity of the Nginx archive
• uses latest version of Nginx
• Nginx docroot at /app/nginx
• Removes any unnecessary leftovers of the build