docker-nginx-centos

Nginx docker image based on centos official image, versions 6 and 7.

What is Nginx?

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a web server. It can act as a reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer and an HTTP cache.

See: Nginx

What is inside of this repo?

In this git repository you will find the docker image definitions for Nginx 1.14.0 in centos 7 and 6.

• centos7/Dockerfile
• centos6/Dockerfile

How do I use this images?

To use this images you must do as follows:

# you can use tags latest, latest-centos7, latest-centos6
docker pull chentex/docker-nginx-centos:latest

# to run the image just execute
docker run -d -p 80:80 chentex/docker-nginx-centos:latest

# to run the with a volume for /data/www
docker run -d -p 80:80 -v /custom/volume/path:/data/www chentex/docker-nginx-centos:latest

You will have now a docker container running nginx on centos you can look for it with

docker ps

You can log into the container with this command

docker exec -ti <container-id> bash

How do I build this images?

First things first, you can find these docker images in chentex/docker-nginx-centos but you can also build a specific version on your own, you only need:

• docker

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/chentex/docker-nginx-centos.git

Go to the folder in your terminal and type this:

# cd <desired-version>
cd centos7
# Then build the new image
docker build -f Dockerfile .

If you want to tag your image use the following command

docker build -f Dockerfile -t yourbase/yourname:version .

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For more on docker build reference to the Documentation

You can get the source from the images in the Repository