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nginx-admins-handbook

How to improve NGINX performance, security, and other important things.

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How to improve NGINX performance, security, and other important things.

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jchook·Oct 20, 2020
For folks interested in further reading, I like this guide for hardening nginx: https://github.com/trimstray/nginx-admins-handbook Seems some very critical security mechanisms (such as CSP) still require additional/careful user config, and don't get highlighted by the guides. Might help to add a walk-through or, e.g. link to a good CSP generator tool. Also I wonder if compiling from source then using `FROM scratch` would improve security even further, similar to this nginx container image: https://github.com/ricardbejarano/nginx
In Show HN: Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default

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