Short tutorial on how to create a docker image based
on Nginx with own website files
Requirements: installed Docker
Update the apt package index and install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
ca-certificates \
curl \
gnupg Add Docker’s official GPG key:
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpgUse the following command to set up the repository:
echo \
"deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
"$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/nullUpdate the apt package index:
sudo apt-get updateTo install the latest version, run:
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-pluginmore on: official Docker documentation
1.create a directory for all you files
mkdir webserver
cd webserver2.create a folder and copy your website files into it, in this case we just use a simple index.html
nano index.html<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="de">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>NGINX - Website</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello from your Website.
</body>
</html>3.create a file called "Dockerfile"
-paste in the given code
-dont forget to change path to your folder which cointains your website files or just use the given index.html
#get base image
FROM nginx
#author label
LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://github.com/Kev-Soft/"
RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
#copy all website files - in this case we use index.html
COPY index.html /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html
EXPOSE 8080
4.build docker image and tag it -
docker build -t webserver:v1 .
#make sure to edit it to you dockerhub-rep
#example: docker tag webserver:v1 your-dockerhub-rep/webserver:v1
docker tag webserver:v1 dothavoc/webserver:v15.push it to docker hub
docker login
docker push dothavoc/webserver:v1- pull and run it
docker pull dothavoc/webserver:v1
docker run dothavoc/webserver:v1