Running Jenkins behind an NGINX reverse proxy
One of the newer web server solutions to take the Internet by storm is NGinX (pronounced Engine X). Developed in 2004 under the supervision of Igor Sysoev, NGINX was created to facilitate scalability and the load-balancing requirements of high-traffic web sites. Since its inception, this tool has gained wide acceptance and notoriety. Let's look at how to apply a reverse proxy to Jenkins. This can be accomplished in a straightforward manner. Let's take a few minutes to look at how to achieve this.
If NGINX has not already been installed on the target system, the first step will be to install it. NGINX can easily be installed onto an Ubuntu/Debian or CentOS-based system using the following terminal commands: ...
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