What is this?

Stable and up-to-date FreeNGINX with QUIC + HTTP/3 support, Google's brotli compression, njs module and Grade A+ SSL config

How to use this image

As this project is based on the official nginx image look for instructions there. In addition to the standard configuration directives, you'll be able to use the brotli module specific ones, see here for official documentation

docker pull vincejv/nginx:latest

You can fetch an image from Github Containers Registry as well:

docker pull ghcr.io/vincejv/nginx:latest

What's inside

• built-in FreeNGINX modules
• headers-more-nginx-module - sets and clears HTTP request and response headers
• ngx_brotli - adds brotli response compression
• ngx_http_geoip2_module - creates variables with values from the maxmind geoip2 databases based on the client IP
• njs module - a subset of the JavaScript language that allows extending nginx functionality

$ docker run -it vincejv/nginx nginx -V
nginx version: freenginx/1.27.2 (quic-2a847df38232)
built by gcc 13.2.1 20231014 (Alpine 13.2.1_git20231014) 
built with OpenSSL 3.3.1 4 Jun 2024
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: 
	--build=quic-2a847df38232
	--prefix=/etc/nginx 
	--sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx 
	--modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules 
	--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf 
	--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log 
	--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log 
	--pid-path=/var/run/nginx/nginx.pid 
	--lock-path=/var/run/nginx/nginx.lock 
	--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp 
	--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp 
	--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp 
	--http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp 
	--http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp 
	--user=nginx 
	--group=nginx 
	--with-http_ssl_module 
	--with-http_realip_module 
	--with-http_addition_module 
	--with-http_sub_module 
	--with-http_dav_module 
	--with-http_flv_module 
	--with-http_mp4_module 
	--with-http_gunzip_module 
	--with-http_gzip_static_module 
	--with-http_random_index_module 
	--with-http_secure_link_module 
	--with-http_stub_status_module 
	--with-http_auth_request_module 
	--with-http_xslt_module=dynamic 
	--with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic 
	--with-http_geoip_module=dynamic 
	--with-http_perl_module=dynamic 
	--with-threads 
	--with-stream 
	--with-stream_ssl_module 
	--with-stream_ssl_preread_module 
	--with-stream_realip_module 
	--with-stream_geoip_module=dynamic 
	--with-http_slice_module 
	--with-mail 
	--with-mail_ssl_module 
	--with-compat 
	--with-file-aio 
	--with-http_v2_module 
	--with-http_v3_module 
	--add-module=/usr/src/ngx_brotli 
	--add-module=/usr/src/headers-more-nginx-module-0.37 
	--add-module=/usr/src/njs/nginx 
	--add-dynamic-module=/usr/src/ngx_http_geoip2_module

$ docker run -it vincejv/nginx njs -v
0.8.4

SSL Grade A+ handling

Please refer to Mozilla's SSL Configuration Generator. This image has https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/ffdhe2048.txt DH parameters for DHE ciphers fetched and stored in /etc/ssl/dhparam.pem:

    ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/dhparam.pem;

See ssllabs.com test results for matrix.vincejv.com.

nginx config files includes

• .conf files mounted in /etc/nginx/main.d will be included in the main nginx context (e.g. you can call env directive there)
• .conf files mounted in /etc/nginx/conf.d will be included in the http nginx context

QUIC + HTTP/3 support

Please refer to tests/https.conf config file for an example config used by the tests. And to Cloudflare docs on how to enable http/3 support in your browser.

server {
    # http/3
    listen 443 quic reuseport;

    # http/2 and http/1.1
    listen 443 ssl;
    http2 on;

    server_name localhost;  # customize to match your domain

    # you need to mount these files when running this container
    ssl_certificate     /etc/nginx/ssl/localhost.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/localhost.key;

    # TLSv1.3 is required for QUIC.
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;

    # 0-RTT QUIC connection resumption
    ssl_early_data on;

    # Add Alt-Svc header to negotiate HTTP/3.
    add_header alt-svc 'h3=":443"; ma=86400';

    # Sent when QUIC was used
    add_header QUIC-Status $http3;

    location / {
        # your config
    }
}

Refer to run-docker.sh script on how to run this container and properly mount required config files and assets.

Development

Building an image:

docker pull ghcr.io/vincejv/nginx:latest
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build . -t vincejv/nginx --cache-from=ghcr.io/vincejv/nginx:latest --progress=plain

Docker Compose example

It is necessary to expose both UDP and TCP ports to be able to HTTP/3

  nginx:
    image: vincejv/nginx
    ports:
      - '443:443/tcp'
      - '443:443/udp' # use UDP for usage of HTTP/3

Note: both TCP and UDP HTTP/3 ports needs to be the same