Deploying NGINX and NGINX Plus with Docker
Deploying NGINX and NGINX Plus with Docker Note: This post was updated in May 2020 to make the Docker commands comply with current standards and to provide an updated NGINX Plus Dockerfile for Debian and Alpine Linux distributions. Docker is an open platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications as containers (lightweight, standalone, executable packages of software that include everything needed to run an application). Containers can in turn be deployed and orchestrated by container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes. (In addition to the Docker container technology for NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus discussed in this blog, NGINX provides the NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes; for NGINX Plus subscribers, support is included at no extra cost.) As software applications, NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus are great use cases for Docker, and we publish an NGINX Open Source image on Docker Hub, the repository [ more… ]