Setting up nginx and ssl in docker (Asp .Net API in VPS) - docker

I want to deploy api service (asp .net) to VPS.
What is at the moment:
VPS ubuntu 22.10
Container api service with open port http.
Container mongodb.
Network bridge for communication between these containers.
Volume for storing mongodb collections.
Configured dns subdomain, which translates to ip VPS.
What I want:
To add nginx.
To add ssl (Let's Encrypt with certbot).
I don't want to use docker compose because I want to understand how things works.
I'm not strong in terminology, but perhaps what I want to do is called an open nginx proxy.
Please tell me if I understand correctly what I need to do.
Nginx:
To run a separate nginx container.
To add the nginx configuration to the docker volume.
To add nginx to the bridge network (close ports on the api container, open ports on the nginx container)
To set up nginx location configs to work internally through the network bridge.
SSL:
On the VPS machine (not in the docker container) to install and run certbot
To enabled automatic certificate renewal
I'm not sure where I need to run certbot. On vps machine or in nginx docker container.
I don't know how to configure nginx to work through the bridge.

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I highly suggest using Caddy for this type of setup.
Nginx is awesome and you could use that for the same purpose.
But for what you want to do caddy will work perfectly.
Just make sure to run each container on a different port.
Then use caddy as a reverse proxy to each container:
https://medium.com/bumps-from-a-little-front-end-programmer/caddy-reverse-proxy-tutorial-faa2ce22a9c6
Lets say you have containers running on port 5000,8800 and 9000
the you could do:
example.com
reverse_proxy /one localhost:5000
reverse_proxy /two localhost:8800
reverse_proxy /three localhost:9000
Caddy is cool because it will also setup SSL via Letsencrypt.
I didn't have time or a server to test this now, but let me know if it works.
God bless :)
Docker can only route to different ports. It can not determine the container by a http-path.
You need a reverse proxy (RP).
You have two options:
Install RP on host
You can install the RP on your host machine. There are many pros, like you can use the certbot for automatic lets encrypt certs. And you have the opportunity to use more docker-containers.
For this you have to publish ports in docker to your hostmachine.
Use your docker-nginx as RP
You can also set your frontend as RP. Just put your docker-containers in a docker-network and add the RP-config to your nginx.

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If you want to have 2 nginx container, both listening to the same port, you can use Docker in swarm mode. It has a built in load balancer which redirect the load to both of them. (note that in this case, both nginx instances must come from the same image)
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