December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
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9h 28m
English
Now that we have container images for our backend applications, we can direct our attention to the frontend application. Since this application runs in the user's browser, we do not really need a containerized runtime environment for it. What we do need though is a way to deliver the application to the user. Since the entire application consists of a bit of HTML and JavaScript files, we can build a container image that contains a simple NGINX web server that serves these files to the users.
For this, we will be building on the nginx:1.11-alpine image. This image contains a minimal version of the NGINX web server, built on Alpine Linux. Alpine is a Linux distribution optimized for small size. The entire ...
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