--- title: "Configuring nginx for PERN App docker compose! [DevOps Office Hours Ep. 06 -- Featuring Donny Roufs]" url: https://daily.dev/posts/configuring-nginx-for-pern-app-docker-compose-devops-office-hours-ep-06----featuring-donny-roufs--cdjtdy34w source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie-ma5f7rLs type: video:youtube source: "DevOps Directive" published: 2026-05-31T07:40:34.955Z updated: 2026-05-31T07:47:33.243Z tags: ["docker", "postgresql", "nginx", "docker-compose"] reading_time: 90 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Configuring nginx for PERN App docker compose! [DevOps Office Hours Ep. 06 -- Featuring Donny Roufs] **[DevOps Directive](https://daily.dev/sources/devops-directive)** · 90 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A live DevOps session (episode 6 of a series) where a PERN stack app called League Decks is being dockerized and prepared for production on DigitalOcean. The main focus is configuring nginx as a reverse proxy within a Docker Compose setup to serve a React frontend (built into static files) and proxy API requests to a Node.js/Express backend. The session covers multi-stage Docker builds, separating database migration from the API server service, debugging nginx upstream directives, and planning a PostgreSQL database dump/restore workflow for migrating from the existing droplet to the new dockerized setup. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#nginx](https://daily.dev/tags/nginx), [#docker-compose](https://daily.dev/tags/docker-compose) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/configuring-nginx-for-pern-app-docker-compose-devops-office-hours-ep-06----featuring-donny-roufs--cdjtdy34w)