Is Nginx used and working ?

[Etisti]

Hi, i would like to know, is Nginx used ?

• By front end ? => full-stack-fastapi-postgresql/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/frontend/nginx-backend-not-found.conf for wich purpose ?

• Is it used as reverse proxy and/or load balancer too ?

• If used why using Nginx AND Traefik ???

Thanks a lot for thoses informations

[karolzlot]

Only Traefik is used as reverse proxy.

Nginx is used inside frontend docker container. I am sure nginx is not used anywhere else.

[Etisti]

why it is used inside frontend docker container and not has reverse proxy ? I don't understand the purpose of having 2 reverse proxy here ^^'

[karolzlot]

Nginx is not only reverse proxy, it is also a web server.

In this case it is configured to be used as a webserver to serve react app, you can see it in nginx.conf.

The only reverse proxy used in this project is traefik.

I think traefik is more modern than ngnix, so it was chosen for this project.

[Etisti]

I don't understand really well... So how many servers are set up on this project ? Does the front end has his own server so it is like an other app communicating with the fastAPI app ? And traefik load balances the (how many?) gunicorns/uvicorns serveurs ? I'm having a bad time trying to vizualise this I'm sorry 😅

[karolzlot]

Each container is a server. You can run reach container separately.

I think you need to read more about docker/ docker compose and practice on simpler projects first

[Etisti]

I know about docker and compose. It is just that I don't understand that you separate one serveur to serve for front end and an other one for back end... It is the architecture that I don't understand well

[shoaib30]

It actually is quite a standard architecture. It allows scaling the backend independently of the front end. And the load balancing can be for the backend services (which could be more than one)