Deployment with Docker

Web server

We can choose any web server software here, but since we have already worked with NGINX earlier, it makes sense that we would try to reuse bits and pieces of this component--it is practically what the container architecture is all about! The web server component will provide some basic authentication, cache data, and act as a reverse-proxy for the application server behind it. Our basic setup that we worked on earlier can be used here, but we will modify it a bit so that instead of serving files directly, it acts as a proxy and then use authentication based on a credentials file we will create in our Dockerfile. Let's create a new folder named web_server and add these files to it:

nginx_main_site.conf:

server {  listen  80; server_name ...