How to patch and/or upgrade Nginx from source in production environment?

[PGNet Dev]

Nginx is an easy build from source, thankfully.

Deploying tarbal'd local source-builds to other machines is not terrible at all if you isolate your install DIR (e.g, 'everything' under /opt/nginx); ansible is your friend.

But, it's a bit of a slog to deploy into usual distro env, avoid collisions, and if needed, cleanly uninstall.  Certainly doable, but can be messy.

To solve for that inconvenience, build your own packages from own sources on an open build system (e.g., SUSE's OBS, Fedora's COPR, etc), and install those packages via rpms.
Or for that matter, even local rpmbuilds should be portable, as long as you correctly account for differences in target deployment ENVs.

yes, rpm .spec files can be annoying. it's a trade-off.


> I'm curious how many people run Nginx in a production environment that was installed from source and not a package.
> 
> For those people who are running Nginx in this manner, how do you keep Nginx patched when patches are released?
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> How do you upgrade your existing Nginx in your production environment while minimizing downtime?
> 
> Thank you,
> Ed
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