Question. Is there a reason you don't deploy nginxy as a container?

[darKoram]

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[martensson]

Hi @darKoram,

Actually yes, I did consider it from the start but there are a few reasons I choose not to:

1. nixy is already just a single binary, so putting it in a container saves little to nothing.
2. Running nginx in a container makes it difficult for nixy to reload its config from the outside.
3. Bundle nginx and nixy together means putting two services in the same container (kind of against the docker philosophy), and I would have to keep building new images for every new release, security fix, etc, that nginx releases.
4. Some people prefers openresty and/or different version of nginx (stable/mainline), in addition to keep it patched at all times.

dpkg -i nixy.deb && apt-get install -y nginx is pretty much what is needed on a standard ubuntu server. So I thought in the end to skip the extra hassle 😉

Hope it answered the question :)