Add NGINX unit image / or use add to nextcloud-fpm

[strannick-ru]

Hello.

How about use nginx unit in your nextcloud-fpm images?
For debian its really simple — just add nginx unit repo, install it, add config and make little change into entrypoint.sh.

What is for? You get best from two apps — php-fpm for php and nginx for static files.
It will be like nextcloud-apache image, but suitable for heavy loads.

links:
https://hub.docker.com/r/nginx/unit/
https://unit.nginx.org/

[dm3ch]

@J0WI @tilosp Is there any chance that there would be added official docker image using nginx-unit? Not as a replacement of php-fpm, but as a new distribution option (like apache).
If maintainers are ready to merge such contribution, I'm ready to update existing ananace PR or recreate it from scratch.

P.S. Sorry for mentioning

[J0WI]

Unfortunately no. There is neither support or documentation from Nextcloud nor is this a common setup in the official Docker library. There is also no official unit image and we cannot use third party base image as proposed in #1610.

So far, there was not much demand for this, but feel free to contribute any documentation or examples.

[tippexs]

Hello @J0WI sorry for picking up this "old" issue again. But a lot has changed since 2022 and we are now an official Docker Image and NGINX Unit is a true alternative to PHP-FPM.

I have just created a new configuration for NC 27.1.2. I would love to contribute this if we can find a way adding Unit to the NC update script in some sort. If this is not possible is there a way to contribute to your docs? To me a documentation about how to use NGINX Unit for NC is better placed somewhere on your end as on ours. I am happy to share everything we have to make this happen! Just let me know.

Cheers Timo from NGINX :)

[gaigelama]

Hello @J0WI sorry for picking up this "old" issue again. But a lot has changed since 2022 and we are now an official Docker Image and NGINX Unit is a true alternative to PHP-FPM.

I have just created a new configuration for NC 27.1.2. I would love to contribute this if we can find a way adding Unit to the NC update script in some sort. If this is not possible is there a way to contribute to your docs? To me a documentation about how to use NGINX Unit for NC is better placed somewhere on your end as on ours. I am happy to share everything we have to make this happen! Just let me know.

Cheers Timo from NGINX :)

I was just checking this thread out a couple days ago and was going to comment that there was now an official NGINX Unit image but didn't have time. I circled back today to see your reply and it couldn't get any better than that lol.

If you get something pushed to Docker Hub or another public registry I can test this out on Nextcloud on k8s and provide feedback.

Thanks for taking an interest and getting something started @tippexs .

[tippexs]

Thanks @gaigelama sounds great! I will push my updates to a git repository and push the image to docker hub. Will share it later today with you.

[gaigelama]

I'm not associated with Nextcloud or this repo so I unfortunately can't speak on their behalf. Taking a look at the open/merged PRs and the CoC though, PRs seem to be welcome. Hopefully a maintainer can better assist you soon.

[J0WI]

If this is not possible is there a way to contribute to your docs? To me a documentation about how to use NGINX Unit for NC is better placed somewhere on your end as on ours.

The canonical documentation lives at https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation. That's also the reference for the nginx examples in this repo. Does unit require any change in the Nextcloud image or is this just an alternative for the nginx example?

[tippexs]

Hi @J0WI sorry for my late response!

Unit does not require any changes in the Nextcloud image. It is a simpler way to deploy PHP applications with NGINX without having the need of two seperate processes (NGINX and PHP-FPM).

I have just worked on an issue in our repositories. nginx/unit#959
Let me know if you need a template Dockerfile or configuration.

[ananace]

I pushed some updates to #1610 - it now results in what looks to be a fully functional install, including support for pretty URLs.

I've in fact moved my personal nextcloud instance onto it to further dogfood the image.