Containers

Containers aren’t that new fancy thing anymore, but they were a big deal. And they still are. They are a concrete solution to the following problem: - Hey, your software doesn’t work… - Sorry, it works on my computer! Can’t help you. Whether we like them or not, containers are here to stay. Their expressiveness and semantics allow for an abstraction of the OS dependencies that a software has, the latter being often dynamically linked against certain libraries....

Given the current censorship situation in Iran, I decided to have a look at the Signal TLS Proxy. One thing immediately jumped out - the NGINX image has not been updated for years. In fact, NGINX 1.18 is so old that it has gone end of life for a year and a half as of this writing. If you are deploying or maintaining a Signal TLS Proxy, I highly recommend that you use the upstream nginx:alpine image instead....