NGINX Cookbook

NGINX reverse proxy via Docker

In most scenarios, Docker will be deployed alongside an application container, such as Ruby on Rails, WordPress, or similar. In traditional deployment scenarios, these would all be configured on one server. However, in a Docker-based environment, you may want to reduce each container to a single task or process where possible, like a microservice-based architecture. This is so that you can independently upgrade or replace each part without affecting the other. An example of this is updating system libraries or deploying different PHP versions. As each task is a separate container, it remains isolated and, therefore, unaffected by other containers.

Using a reverse proxy on your local development server can also ...