evalevil/docker-nginx-brotli

What is this?

Stable and up-to-date nginx with QUIC + HTTP/3 support, Google's brotli compression 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 macbre/nginx-brotli:1.19.6-http3

Please refer to the list of image tags as there more recent nginx versions there (but without http3 support).

What's inside

$ docker run -it macbre/nginx-brotli nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.19.6 (quiche-567cc5e)
built by gcc 10.2.1 20201203 (Alpine 10.2.1_pre1) 
built with OpenSSL 1.1.1 (compatible; BoringSSL) (running with BoringSSL)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --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.pid --lock-path=/var/run/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-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 --with-openssl=/usr/src/quiche/deps/boringssl --with-quiche=/usr/src/quiche --add-module=/usr/src/ngx_brotli --build=quiche-567cc5e

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;

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 {
    # quic and http/3
    listen 443 quic reuseport;

    # http/2
    listen 443 ssl http2;

    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;

    # Enable all TLS versions (TLSv1.3 is required for QUIC).
    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 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 'h3-27=":443"; ma=86400, h3-28=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400';

    location / {
        # your config
    }
}

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

evalevil / docker-nginx-brotli