Bitnami Secure Image for nginx
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NGINX Open Source is a web server that can be also used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. Recommended for high-demanding sites due to its ability to provide faster content.
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docker run --name nginx REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
Those are hardened, minimal CVE images built and maintained by Bitnami. Bitnami Secure Images are based on the cloud-optimized, security-hardened enterprise OS Photon Linux. Why choose BSI images?
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Deploying Bitnami applications as Helm Charts is the easiest way to get started with our applications on Kubernetes. Read more about the installation in the Bitnami NGINX Open Source Chart GitHub repository.
Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recommended for production environments. However, because they run as a non-root user, privileged tasks are typically off-limits. Learn more about non-root containers in our docs.
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You can see the equivalence between the different tags by taking a look at the tags-info.yaml file present in the branch folder, i.e bitnami/ASSET/BRANCH/DISTRO/tags-info.yaml.
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The recommended way to get the Bitnami NGINX Open Source Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.
docker pull REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.
docker pull REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:[TAG]
If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning the repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build command. Remember to replace the APP, VERSION and OPERATING-SYSTEM path placeholders in the example command below with the correct values.
git clone https://github.com/bitnami/containers.git
cd bitnami/APP/VERSION/OPERATING-SYSTEM
docker build -t REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/APP:latest .
This NGINX Open Source image exposes a volume at /app. Content mounted here is served by the default catch-all server block.
docker run -v /path/to/app:/app REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
or by modifying the docker-compose.yml file present in this repository:
services:
nginx:
...
volumes:
- /path/to/app:/app
...
To access your web server from your host machine you can ask Docker to map a random port on your host to ports 8080 and 8443 exposed in the container.
docker run --name nginx -P REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
Run docker port to determine the random ports Docker assigned.
$ docker port nginx
8080/tcp -> 0.0.0.0:32769
You can also manually specify the ports you want forwarded from your host to the container.
docker run -p 9000:8080 REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
Access your web server in the browser by navigating to http://localhost:9000.
The default nginx.conf includes server blocks placed in /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/. You can mount a my_server_block.conf file containing your custom server block at this location.
For example, in order add a server block for www.example.com:
my_server_block.conf file with the following contentserver {
listen 0.0.0.0:8080;
server_name www.example.com;
root /app;
index index.htm index.html;
}
docker run --name nginx \
-v /path/to/my_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/my_server_block.conf:ro \
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
or by modifying the docker-compose.yml file present in this repository:
services:
nginx:
...
volumes:
- /path/to/my_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/my_server_block.conf:ro
...
The default nginx.conf supports custom configuration files organized by NGINX context. You can mount configuration files into the appropriate context directories:
/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/context.d/main/ - For main context directives (e.g., module loading, worker processes)/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/context.d/events/ - For events context directives (e.g., worker_connections)/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/context.d/http/ - For http context directives (equivalent to server_blocks)For example, to enable the WebDAV module, create a webdav.conf file with the following content:
load_module /opt/bitnami/nginx/modules/ngx_http_dav_module.so;
Mount it to the main context directory:
docker run --name nginx \
-v /path/to/webdav.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/context.d/main/webdav.conf:ro \
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
or by modifying the docker-compose.yml file:
services:
nginx:
...
volumes:
- /path/to/webdav.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/context.d/main/webdav.conf:ro
...
Similarly, you can add custom server blocks to the http context:
docker run --name nginx \
-v /path/to/my_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/context.d/http/my_server_block.conf:ro \
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
Similar to server blocks, you can include server blocks for the NGINX Stream Core Module mounting them at /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/stream_server_blocks/. In order to do so, it's also necessary to set the NGINX_ENABLE_STREAM environment variable to yes.
my_stream_server_block.conf file with the following contentupstream backend {
hash $remote_addr consistent;
server backend1.example.com:12345 weight=5;
server 127.0.0.1:12345 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
server unix:/tmp/backend3;
}
server {
listen 12345;
proxy_connect_timeout 1s;
proxy_timeout 3s;
proxy_pass backend;
}
docker run --name nginx \
-e NGINX_ENABLE_STREAM=yes \
-v /path/to/my_stream_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/stream_server_blocks/my_stream_server_block.conf:ro \
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
or by modifying the docker-compose.yml file present in this repository:
services:
nginx:
...
environment:
- NGINX_ENABLE_STREAM=yes
...
volumes:
- /path/to/my_stream_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/stream_server_blocks/my_stream_server_block.conf:ro
...
NOTE: The steps below assume that you are using a custom domain name and that you have already configured the custom domain name to point to your server.
In your local computer, create a folder called certs and put your certificates files. Make sure you rename both files to tls.crt and tls.key respectively:
mkdir -p /path/to/nginx-persistence/certs
cp /path/to/certfile.crt /path/to/nginx-persistence/certs/tls.crt
cp /path/to/keyfile.key /path/to/nginx-persistence/certs/tls.key
Write your my_server_block.conf file with the SSL configuration and the relative path to the certificates:
server {
listen 8443 ssl;
ssl_certificate bitnami/certs/tls.crt;
ssl_certificate_key bitnami/certs/tls.key;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;
ssl_session_timeout 5m;
ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
location / {
root html;
index index.html index.htm;
}
}
Run the NGINX Open Source image, mounting the certificates directory from your host.
docker run --name nginx \
-v /path/to/my_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/my_server_block.conf:ro \
-v /path/to/nginx-persistence/certs:/certs \
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
or by modifying the docker-compose.yml file present in this repository:
services:
nginx:
...
volumes:
- /path/to/nginx-persistence/certs:/certs
- /path/to/my_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/my_server_block.conf:ro
...
By default redirections issued by NGINX Open Source image will be relative. If you need to activate absolute redirections you can set NGINX_ENABLE_ABSOLUTE_REDIRECT to yes. You should pay attention to the port where the container is listening, because it won't appear in redirections unless you set also NGINX_ENABLE_PORT_IN_REDIRECT to yes.
In the following lines you can see different examples what explain how redirections work. All of them will assume that we have the following content in the server block my_redirect_server_block.conf:
server {
listen 0.0.0.0:8080;
server_name www.example.com;
root /app;
index index.htm index.html;
location /test/ {
return 301 /index.html;
}
}
docker run --name nginx --rm -p 9000:8080 \
-v /path/to/my_redirect_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/my_redirect.conf:ro \
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
As mentioned, default redirections issued by NGINX Open Source image will be relative. The client should build the final URL
$ curl -kI http://localhost:9000/test/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
...
Location: /index.html
...
$ curl -w %{redirect_url}\\n -o /dev/null http://localhost:9000/test/
http://localhost:9000/index.html
Please keep in mind that some old clients could be not compatible with relative redirections.
docker run --name nginx --rm -p 9000:8080 \
-v /path/to/my_redirect_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/my_redirect.conf:ro \
-e NGINX_ENABLE_ABSOLUTE_REDIRECT=yes \
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
As result, the container will reply with a full URL in the Location header but it doesn't have the port. This is useful if you are exposing the container in standard ports (80 or 443)
$ curl -kI http://localhost:9000/test/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
...
Location: http://localhost/index.html
...
docker run --name nginx --rm -p 9000:8080 \
-v /path/to/my_redirect_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/my_redirect.conf:ro \
-e NGINX_ENABLE_ABSOLUTE_REDIRECT=yes \
-e NGINX_ENABLE_PORT_IN_REDIRECT=yes \
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
In this case the container will include the port where it is listening to in redirections, not the port where it is exposed (in the example 8080 vs 9000)
$ curl -kI http://localhost:9000/test/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
...
Location: http://localhost:8080/index.html
...
To amend this situation and build reachable URLs, you have to run the container listening in the same port that you are exposing
docker run --name nginx --rm -p 9000:9000 \
-v /path/to/my_redirect_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/my_redirect.conf:ro \
-e NGINX_ENABLE_ABSOLUTE_REDIRECT=yes \
-e NGINX_ENABLE_PORT_IN_REDIRECT=yes \
-e NGINX_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER=9000
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
The image looks for configurations in /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf. You can overwrite the nginx.conf file using your own custom configuration file.
docker run --name nginx \
-v /path/to/your_nginx.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:ro \
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
or by modifying the docker-compose.yml file present in this repository:
services:
nginx:
...
volumes:
- /path/to/your_nginx.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:ro
...
The Bitnami NGINX Open Source Docker image from the Bitnami Secure Images catalog includes extra features and settings to configure the container with FIPS capabilities. You can configure the next environment variables:
OPENSSL_FIPS: whether OpenSSL runs in FIPS mode or not. yes (default), no.NGINX can be used to reverse proxy to other containers using Docker's linking system. This is particularly useful if you want to serve dynamic content through an NGINX frontend. To do so, add a server block like the following in the /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/ folder:
server {
listen 0.0.0.0:8080;
server_name yourapp.com;
access_log /opt/bitnami/nginx/logs/yourapp_access.log;
error_log /opt/bitnami/nginx/logs/yourapp_error.log;
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header HOST $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
proxy_pass http://[your_container_alias]:[your_container_port];
proxy_redirect off;
}
}
Further Reading:
The Bitnami NGINX Open Source Docker image sends the container logs to the stdout. To view the logs:
docker logs nginx
or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose logs nginx
You can configure the containers logging driver using the --log-driver option if you wish to consume the container logs differently. In the default configuration docker uses the json-file driver.
The Bitnami NGINX Open Source Docker image is designed to be extended so it can be used as the base image for your custom web applications.
Before extending this image, please note there are certain configuration settings you can modify using the original image:
NGINX_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER.If your desired customizations cannot be covered using the methods mentioned above, extend the image. To do so, create your own image using a Dockerfile with the format below:
FROM bitnami/nginx
### Put your customizations below
...
Here is an example of extending the image with the following modifications:
vim editorFROM bitnami/nginx
### Change user to perform privileged actions
USER 0
### Install 'vim'
RUN install_packages vim
### Revert to the original non-root user
USER 1001
### Modify 'worker_connections' on NGINX config file to '512'
RUN sed -i -r "s#(\s+worker_connections\s+)[0-9]+;#\1512;#" /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
### Modify the ports used by NGINX by default
ENV NGINX_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER=8181 # It is also possible to change this environment variable at runtime
EXPOSE 8181 8143
### Modify the default container user
USER 1002
Based on the extended image, you can use a Docker Compose file like the one below to add other features:
version: '2'
services:
nginx:
build: .
ports:
- 80:8181
- 443:8443
depends_on:
- cloner
volumes:
- ./config/my_server_block.conf:/opt/REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx/conf/conf.d/server_blocks/my_server_block.conf:ro
- ./certs:/certs
- data:/app
cloner:
image: REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/git:latest
command:
- clone
- https://github.com/cloudacademy/static-website-example
- /app
volumes:
- data:/app
volumes:
data:
driver: local
The module ngx_http_dav_module is intended for file management automation via the WebDAV protocol. In current Bitnami images, this module is built as a dynamic module located under the /opt/bitnami/nginx/modules directory. You will need to load it in your NGINX configuration for you to be able to use its directives.
load_module /opt/bitnami/nginx/modules/ngx_http_dav_module.so;
To add a custom NGINX module, it is necessary to compile NGINX with that module and copy over the appropriate files to the Bitnami image.
Below is an example Dockerfile to build and install the NGINX Perl module (ngx_http_perl_module) over to the Bitnami image:
ARG NGINX_VERSION=1.25.0
ARG BITNAMI_NGINX_REVISION=r0
ARG BITNAMI_NGINX_TAG=${NGINX_VERSION}-debian-12-${BITNAMI_NGINX_REVISION}
FROM REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:${BITNAMI_NGINX_TAG} AS builder
USER root
## Redeclare NGINX_VERSION so it can be used as a parameter inside this build stage
ARG NGINX_VERSION
## Install required packages and build dependencies
RUN install_packages dirmngr gpg gpg-agent curl build-essential libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev libperl-dev
## Add trusted NGINX PGP key for tarball integrity verification
RUN gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 520A9993A1C052F8
## Download NGINX, verify integrity and extract
RUN cd /tmp && \
curl -O https://nginx.org/download/nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz && \
curl -O https://nginx.org/download/nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz.asc && \
gpg --verify nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz.asc nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz && \
tar xzf nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz
## Compile NGINX with desired module
RUN cd /tmp/nginx-${NGINX_VERSION} && \
rm -rf /opt/bitnami/nginx && \
./configure --prefix=/opt/bitnami/nginx --with-compat --with-http_perl_module=dynamic && \
make && \
make install
FROM REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:${BITNAMI_NGINX_TAG}
USER root
## Install ngx_http_perl_module system package dependencies
RUN install_packages libperl-dev
## Install ngx_http_perl_module files
COPY --from=builder /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl
COPY --from=builder /opt/bitnami/nginx/modules/ngx_http_perl_module.so /opt/bitnami/nginx/modules/ngx_http_perl_module.so
## Enable module
RUN echo "load_module modules/ngx_http_perl_module.so;" | cat - /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf > /tmp/nginx.conf && \
cp /tmp/nginx.conf /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
## Set the container to be run as a non-root user by default
USER 1001
Bitnami provides up-to-date versions of NGINX Open Source, including security patches, soon after they are made upstream. We recommend that you follow these steps to upgrade your container.
docker pull REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
or if you're using Docker Compose, update the value of the image property to
REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest.
Stop the currently running container using the command
docker stop nginx
or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose stop nginx
docker rm -v nginx
or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose rm -v nginx
Re-create your container from the new image.
docker run --name nginx REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/nginx:latest
or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose up nginx
tls.crt/tls.key (from server.crt/server.key), and the certificate signing request is now tls.csr (from server.csr). This change aligns better with the kubernetes.io/tls secret type, enhancing consistency.1.16.1-centos-7-r173 is considered the latest image based on CentOS./opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/vhosts to /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks. Remember to update your Docker Compose files to user the new mount point.Note: the README for this container is longer than the DockerHub length limit of 25000, so it has been trimmed. The full README can be found at https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/bitnami-secure-images/bitnami-secure-images/services/bsi-app-doc/apps-containers-nginx-index.html
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