Nginx is the most widely deployed web server for serving static files. In the Keenrig catalog it plays a double role: a real home for a static site, and the fastest way to confirm a freshly installed instance actually works — it starts in under a second and its default page says plainly that it is running.
What you would use it for
- Host a marketing page, documentation site or static landing page on your own domain.
- Verify a new instance: if Nginx comes up and answers on your domain, then the gateway, DNS and certificate are all correct.
- Serve build output pushed across from a separate pipeline.
What Keenrig handles for you
- Pinned by digest — reinstall six months later and you get exactly that 1.27.4-alpine image, independent of any tag.
- The gateway picks up the domain and certificate: a managed subdomain gets a cloud-issued wildcard, your own domain gets an ACME HTTP-01 certificate obtained by the instance itself.
- Health checked at `/`; if the container dies the reconcile loop brings it back without anyone pressing anything.
- Needs 64 MB of memory — it fits on the smallest VPS any provider sells.
What it does not do. This is Nginx serving static files: no PHP, no database, not a CMS. If you need a site with content administration, pick a different catalog entry — Nginx here exists to serve files you already have.