Deploying Nginx on Azure Ubuntu VM: My Experience

Introduction

Deploying Nginx on an Azure virtual machine (VM) was a great learning experience that strengthened my understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux server management, and networking configurations. This blog post details my approach, chall…


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Uyi Oboite

Introduction

Deploying Nginx on an Azure virtual machine (VM) was a great learning experience that strengthened my understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux server management, and networking configurations. This blog post details my approach, challenges encountered, solutions applied, and how this task aligns with my professional goals.

Nginx is a web server, meaning it serves web content, handles HTTP requests, and acts as a reverse proxy. Reverse proxy means a server or application that functions as an intermediary between clients and actual web servers, intercepting incoming requests from clients, forwarding them to the appropriate backend server, and then sending the response back to the client.

Also note that Nginx as a web server needs an operating system to run, reason I am deploying it on an Azure Ubuntu VM.

My Approach

Here is a step-by-step breakdown of how I completed the task:

1.Creating an Azure Resource Group and Virtual Machine

The first step was to set up an Azure resource group to keep all project-related metadata organized. Then, I created an Ubuntu-based VM to host my Nginx installation.

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2.Connecting to the Azure VM

After deploying the VM, I used the following command to log in to my Azure account from the Ubuntu terminal:

                 az login

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Once authenticated, I established an SSH connection to the VM using:

           ssh username@<VM_IP_Address>

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3.Updating System Packages
To ensure that my system was up to date, I ran:

      sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

The -y flag automatically confirmed the installation of package updates.

4.Installing Nginx
I installed Nginx using:

         sudo apt install nginx -y

5.Starting and Enabling Nginx
Once installed, I started the Nginx service and enabled it to start on boot:

       sudo systemctl start nginx
       sudo systemctl enable nginx
       sudo systemctl status nginx


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Uyi Oboite


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