Introduction

Peace to you all , Here is the Link to my previous blogs , Where I have posted about Docker, Containers and DevOps.

This is Day 4 of documenting my DevOps journey .

This blog focuses on Hosting a static content on Nginx in docker .

Getting Started

In the previous blog , we successfully ran an Nginx web server on docker ,if not just kindly copy paste the below code .

docker pull nginx

You can check whether the image has been pulled by ,

docker images

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We also have a static website already ready in our previous blog , if not just kindly copy paste the below code

<h1> This is a sample Web App </h1>

and save it as an HTML file .

Exploring the Nginx web server

Now , We need to find where Nginx has its HTML files in them , in order to change those html file and replace it with our own .

Scrolling down on the Nginx image in docker hub , we can find the instructions on how to host a simple static content .

/some/content should refer to the path of our html file , we just built .

In my case , I have saved the file inside the users in C:, so my command would be ,

docker run --name webapp -d -p 80:80  -v /c/Users/name/dockersample:/usr/share/nginx/html nginx

Breaking down the above command ,

run —> To run an instance of the image mentioned ,

name —> To set name to the container ,

d —> To run the container in detached mode ( runs in the background and we can have the terminal back),

p —> To access ports in container from hosts ,

v —> Setting up the volume from host to container and

Finally the name of the image , here it is nginx.

Running the above command , displays an ID - which is the container ID.

Now we can check whether the container is running by a command ,

docker ps

in the docker desktop ,

We can find that the container is running successfully.

Opening in browser

Once the container starts running , we can open a browser and check on localhost:80 .

!!! We successfully hosted a static content on Nginx and ran the container in docker!

Though it looks simple , Trust me , This is huge .

What have we done

We pulled an image from Docker Hub ,

The image is known for hosting web applications , Nginx,

We had a static content and mounted it to Nginx image’s static web page and successfully ran it.

See you Tomorrow

Okay . So hold on, stay with me as we get to know docker more and DevOps even more.

Okay Then , Will get back Tomorrow with more!

Peace be upon you!

Hosting a static content in Nginx docker

Comments

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Committing to our existing image and pushing it to DockerHub

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Introduction

Getting Started

Exploring the Nginx web server

Opening in browser

What have we done

See you Tomorrow

Command Palette

Comments

DevOps Journey

Committing to our existing image and pushing it to DockerHub

More from this blog

Introduction

Getting Started

Exploring the Nginx web server

Opening in browser

What have we done

See you Tomorrow