Linux Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

From your command line, let's start an Nginx instance.

You could go about this in one of three ways.

1. Use apt to install Nginx from the default repositories
2. Use Docker to pull the official Nginx image from Docker Hub
3. Set up a VM and install Nginx inside it, using port forwarding from the host

These could be done in the following fashion:

$ sudo apt install nginx -y$ sudo docker run -p80 -d --rm nginx$ cat << HERE > Vagrantfile# -*- mode: ruby -*-# vi: set ft=ruby :\$provisionScript = <<-SCRIPTapt install nginx -ySCRIPTVagrant.configure("2") do |config|  config.vm.define "debian8" do |debian8|    debian8.vm.box = "debian/jessie64" debian8.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080    debian8.vm.provision "shell", inline: ...