NGINX 1.28 Stable on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

## NGINX 1.28 Stable on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by cloudimg

Enterprise grade NGINX 1.28 virtual machine image, purpose built for Microsoft Azure and maintained by cloudimg. NGINX is the most widely deployed web server on the Internet and powers reverse proxies, TLS termination, load balancing, caching, rate limiting, and HTTP/3 (QUIC) at every scale.

Why Choose cloudimg?

* 24/7 Expert Support with guaranteed 24 hour response for all requests and one hour average for critical issues. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk

* Production Ready from Launch Pre configured, security patched, and validated against HTTP round trip on first boot

* Azure Native Integration Built with Azure Linux Agent, cloud init, Gen2 Hyper V support

* Official nginx.org Mainline Installed from the upstream NGINX APT repository for consistent upgrades

What's Included

* NGINX 1.28 Stable mainline with latest security patches

* Official nginx.org APT repository pre configured for easy upgrades

* Cloudimg welcome page at /var/www/html served out of the box

* Sample reverse proxy server block at /etc/nginx/conf.d/cloudimg-example.conf.disabled

* nginx-firstboot.service that marks the image as live on first boot

* server_tokens off pre applied to hide version in response headers

* Azure Linux Agent (waagent) for cloud integration

* Gen2 Hyper V virtual machine support

NGINX 1.28 Features

NGINX 1.28 is the current stable mainline release with updated OpenSSL defaults, improved HTTP/3 (QUIC) support, and performance refinements. It ships under the BSD 2-Clause license and is a drop in upgrade for every NGINX 1.24 and 1.26 deployment.

Use Cases

* Reverse proxy in front of application servers (Node.js, Python, Java, PHP FPM)

* TLS termination with Let's Encrypt via certbot

* HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 (QUIC) capable edge web server

* Load balancer across a pool of backend instances

* Static content and single page application hosting

* Caching layer in front of slower origins

* API gateway for microservices with rate limiting

Technical Specifications

* Web Server: NGINX 1.28 Stable mainline (latest 1.28.x)

* OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

* VM Generation: Hyper V Gen2 with UEFI boot

* Default User: azureuser (sudo enabled)

* HTTP Port: 80 (TCP), HTTPS Port: 443 (TCP)

* Config: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, server blocks in /etc/nginx/conf.d/

* Webroot: /var/www/html

* Logs: /var/log/nginx/

Support

cloudimg provides 24/7/365 expert technical support. Guaranteed response within 24 hours, one hour average for critical issues. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk.

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