Summary

In this chapter, we’ve taken our first steps with Docker and Docker Compose, set up an NGINX container, added PHP, and learned to proxy traffic to a web app on the host server.

Combined with the knowledge from the previous chapters, the exercises in this chapter have highlighted NGINX’s potential as a key asset in cloud infrastructure, strengthening security and managing traffic efficiently, well suited for SSL handling, load balancing, and content caching.

In the next chapter, we’ll learn how to deploy and update NGINX with automated tasks using orchestration tools.