Nginx Docker image based on debian.

Nginx is configured as an automatic reverse proxy for docker images running on the same machine.

It's using docker-gen to automatically build the nginx configuration file when a new container is spawned.

To run nginx and docker-gen into the same container we are using supervisord.

Access logs are processed by Logstash and sent to an Elasticsearch server. You can use Kibana to extract metrics.

To start nginx along with Elasticsearch:

docker run --name nginx -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock -d -p 80:80 --link elasticsearch:elasticsearch ncarlier/nginx

A container is automatically added to the configuration as soon it expose the following environment variables:

ENV DOMAIN_NAME mydomain.com
ENV MAIN_PORT 3001

MAIN_PORT is optional and needed only if the container is exposing more than one port

To bind docker-gen with the hosting Docker, you have to run this image like this:

docker run --name nginx -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock -d -p 80:80 ncarlier/nginx

Build the image with make.

Use make help to see available commands for this image.