This is a default-backend server powered by Nginx. It's purpuse is to serve as a default backend for an ALB default target group with the terraform-aws-alb module , much the way a nginx-default-backend is used with ingress controllers for kubernetes.

The default backend is an HTTP service that handles all URL paths and hosts that the ALB does not understand (i.e., all the requests that are not mapped with an Ingress).

Basically, a default backend responds to two URLs:

• /healthz that returns 200
• / that returns 404

This project is part of our comprehensive "SweetOps" approach towards DevOps.

It's 100% Open Source and licensed under the APACHE2.

Example of the default 404 status page returned by backend

docker run -p 1234:80 clouposse/default-backend:latest

Check out these related projects.

• terraform-aws-alb - Terraform module to provision a standard ALB for HTTP/HTTP traffic
• terraform-aws-alb-ingress - Terraform module to provision an HTTP style ingress rule based on hostname and path for an ALB using target groups
• terraform-aws-ecs-web-app - Terraform module that implements a web app on ECS and supporting AWS resources.

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