NGINX is Dead? // Angie Web Server Migration Guide

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If you’re still running NGINX as a reverse proxy in Docker or on a web server, it might be time to consider Angie — a drop-in replacement built by former NGINX engineers. I’ll walk you through migrating your existing configs, setting up built-in ACME for automatic TLS certificates without certbot, enabling native Prometheus metrics, and configuring Docker upstream discovery.

References
– Write-Up: https://christianlempa.de/videos/angie-tutorial
– Angie: https://en.angie.software/angie/
– My Traefik Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hfejNXqOzA

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
02:54 What is Angie?
04:49 Migrate from Nginx to Angie
07:26 ACME TLS Cert retrieval and renewal
13:16 What about DNS Challenge?
14:38 Prometheus Metrics
16:24 Docker Upstream Discovery and LB
19:00 ANIC Kubernetes Ingress and alternatives
20:35 Final thoughts

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