Container Web app with NGINX, best practices

Question

I'm deploying a web server (Flask+Gunicorn) in a container to Azure app services. I also need NGINX. Should I include that in my web app? Or are web apps automatically behind a configurable NGINX?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi, @randomrabbit

In Python Runtime of App Service Linux, Gunicorn is placed behind Nginx and Flask is installed as standard.
Please refer to the following.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure-language-python#container-characteristics

You should try to install the application using this first.
You can also customize the middleware by calling a custom script that initializes the middleware settings during the App Service startup process.

You can try this out and try a custom container if you need more flexibility.