commercial-nginx-plus-fips

packaged by Chainguard

Chainguard Container for commercial-nginx-plus-fips

F5 NGINX Plus is an all-in-one load balancer, reverse proxy, web server, and content cache with enterprise features, with FIPS support.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/commercial-nginx-plus-fips:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

commercial-nginx-plus-fips is the FIPS variant of commercial-nginx-plus. It ships the same F5 NGINX Plus binaries, the same entrypoint (/usr/sbin/nginx), default arguments (-g "daemon off;") and SIGQUIT stop signal, and the same full set of NGINX Plus modules:

• commercial-nginx-plus (core)
• commercial-nginx-plus-module-acme
• commercial-nginx-plus-module-lua
• commercial-nginx-plus-module-ndk
• commercial-nginx-plus-module-njs
• commercial-nginx-plus-module-otel
• commercial-nginx-plus-module-prometheus

NGINX Plus takes all of its cryptography from the system OpenSSL and bundles none of its own. This image adds openssl-config-fipshardened, which activates the Chainguard FIPS-validated OpenSSL provider, so TLS, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 traffic served by NGINX Plus uses FIPS-approved algorithms only. Connections that negotiate a non-approved cipher suite or protocol version are rejected.

This is a commercial partnership image. Using NGINX Plus requires a valid license from F5 in addition to access to Chainguard Containers. NGINX Plus R33 and later refuse to start without a license JWT at /etc/nginx/license.jwt.

FIPS Support

This image installs openssl-config-fipshardened, which activates the Chainguard FIPS-validated OpenSSL provider (CMVP #5132). NGINX Plus takes all of its cryptography from the system OpenSSL, so TLS, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 traffic is restricted to FIPS-approved algorithms and connections negotiating a non-approved cipher suite or protocol version are refused.

You can confirm the provider is active and passing its self-tests:

docker run --rm --entrypoint openssl-fips-test cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/commercial-nginx-plus-fips:latest

Note that NGINX Plus implements MD5 and SHA-1 internally rather than calling OpenSSL for them, so features that rely on those digests -- proxy cache keys and the WebSocket handshake -- continue to work under FIPS but do not use the validated module for that step.

Prerequisites

• A valid NGINX Plus license and subscription from F5. Visit the NGINX Plus product page for more information.
• Access to the Chainguard Registry for your organization.

Getting Started

Verify that the image is working by checking the version:

docker run --rm --entrypoint /usr/sbin/nginx cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/commercial-nginx-plus-fips:latest -v

Confirm that the FIPS provider is active and passes its self-tests:

docker run --rm --entrypoint openssl-fips-test cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/commercial-nginx-plus-fips:latest

Run NGINX Plus with your license and configuration mounted:

docker run -d -p 8443:443 \
  -v /path/to/license.jwt:/etc/nginx/license.jwt:ro \
  -v /path/to/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro \
  cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/commercial-nginx-plus-fips:latest

Documentation and Resources

• F5 NGINX Plus Product Page
• NGINX Plus Admin Guide
• NGINX Plus subscription licenses
• Chainguard FIPS Containers

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