Stable and up-to-date nginx with QUIC + HTTP/3 support, Google's brotli
compression, njs
module, kTLS/sendfile support and Grade A+ SSL config
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-http3:latest
You can fetch an image from Github Containers Registry as well:
docker pull ghcr.io/macbre/nginx-http3:latest
- built-in nginx modules
headers-more-nginx-module
- sets and clears HTTP request and response headersngx_brotli
- adds brotli response compressionngx_http_geoip2_module
- creates variables with values from the maxmind geoip2 databases based on the client IPnjs
module - a subset of the JavaScript language that allows extending nginx functionality (GitHub repository)
$ docker run -it macbre/nginx-http3 nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.27.2 (331eae3dccf8)
built by gcc 13.2.1 20240309 (Alpine 13.2.1_git20240309)
built with OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments:
--build=331eae3dccf8
--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/nginx.pid
--lock-path=/var/run/nginx/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-http_perl_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-opt=enable-ktls
--add-module=/usr/src/ngx_brotli
--add-module=/usr/src/headers-more-nginx-module-0.37
--add-module=/usr/src/njs/nginx
--add-dynamic-module=/usr/src/ngx_http_geoip2_module
$ docker run -it macbre/nginx-http3 njs -v
0.8.6
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;
See ssllabs.com test results for wbc.macbre.net.
.conf
files mounted in/etc/nginx/main.d
will be included in themain
nginx context (e.g. you can callenv
directive there).conf
files mounted in/etc/nginx/conf.d
will be included in thehttp
nginx context
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 {
# http/3
listen 443 quic reuseport;
# http/2 and http/1.1
listen 443 ssl;
http2 on;
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;
# TLSv1.3 is required for QUIC.
ssl_protocols 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=":443"; ma=86400';
# Sent when QUIC was used
add_header QUIC-Status $http3;
location / {
# your config
}
}
Refer to run-docker.sh
script on how to run this container and properly mount required config files and assets.
Building an image:
docker pull ghcr.io/macbre/nginx-http3:latest
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build . -t macbre/nginx --cache-from=ghcr.io/macbre/nginx-http3:latest --progress=plain
It is necessary to expose both UDP and TCP ports to be able to HTTP/3
nginx:
image: macbre/nginx-http3
ports:
- '443:443/tcp'
- '443:443/udp' # use UDP for usage of HTTP/3
Note: both TCP and UDP HTTP/3 ports needs to be the same