user nginx; worker_processes auto; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn; pid /var/run/nginx.pid; events { worker_connections 1024; use epoll; multi_accept on; } http { include /etc/nginx/mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; # Logging format log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" ' 'rt=$request_time uct="$upstream_connect_time" ' 'uht="$upstream_header_time" urt="$upstream_response_time"'; log_format json escape=json '{' '"time_local":"$time_local",' '"remote_addr":"$remote_addr",' '"remote_user":"$remote_user",' '"request":"$request",' '"status":"$status",' '"body_bytes_sent":"$body_bytes_sent",' '"request_time":"$request_time",' '"http_referrer":"$http_referer",' '"http_user_agent":"$http_user_agent",' '"http_x_forwarded_for":"$http_x_forwarded_for"' '}'; access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main; # Performance optimizations sendfile on; tcp_nopush on; tcp_nodelay on; keepalive_timeout 65; types_hash_max_size 2048; # Gzip compression gzip on; gzip_vary on; gzip_proxied any; gzip_comp_level 6; gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml application/json application/javascript application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/x-javascript; # Security headers add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always; add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always; add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always; # Rate limiting zones limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=api_limit:10m rate=10r/s; limit_conn_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=conn_limit:10m; # Upstream configuration for load balancing upstream api_servers { least_conn; server api:3000 weight=1 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s; # Add more API servers for horizontal scaling: # server api2:3000 weight=1 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s; # server api3:3000 weight=1 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s; keepalive 32; } # Include additional configuration files include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; }