Showcase Your Nginx Skills with a GitHub README Badge

Use this markdown in your README:

![Nginx](https://img.shields.io/badge/Nginx-009639?style=for-the-badge&logo=nginx&logoColor=white)

The #009639 is Nginx's official green from their brand guidelines. The nginx logo identifier renders Nginx's distinctive 'N' logo from Simple Icons. This green badge pairs naturally with Linux, Docker, and other infrastructure tool badges in a DevOps or backend-focused profile.

Nginx configuration is deceptively complex — knowing nginx means more than just 'it serves files'. Specify your depth:

• Basic: Virtual hosting, serving static files, basic proxy_pass to an application server
• Intermediate: SSL/TLS configuration with Let's Encrypt, HTTP/2, Gzip compression, caching headers
• Advanced: Load balancing (round-robin, least-connections, IP hash), upstream health checks, rate limiting with limit_req_zone
• Security: server_tokens off, security headers (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options), fail2ban integration
• Performance: Worker processes tuning, keepalive connections, proxy buffering optimization

Writing maintainable Nginx configuration with well-organized include files (rather than one monolithic nginx.conf) signals infrastructure code discipline.

Nginx appears across multiple infrastructure stacks:

• Classic LEMP stack: Nginx + Linux + MySQL + PHP
• Modern API stack: Nginx + Linux + Python/Node.js + Docker
• Kubernetes ingress: Nginx Ingress Controller + Kubernetes + cert-manager
• High-availability stack: Nginx + Keepalived + HAProxy or upstream load balancer

Nginx and Docker are a common combination — Nginx as a reverse proxy in front of containerized application services is a standard Docker Compose and Kubernetes pattern. If you manage Nginx configuration through Docker Compose or as a Kubernetes Ingress controller rather than raw config files, that distinction is worth noting as it represents modern infrastructure patterns.

Nginx configuration files use .conf extensions, which GitHub does not count in language statistics. Your language stats will reflect your application code (Python, JavaScript, etc.). However, infrastructure repositories with well-organized Nginx configurations, Docker Compose files, and shell scripts tell a clear story about your DevOps skills.

For pinned repositories, a production-ready Nginx configuration repository or a Docker Compose setup with a properly configured Nginx reverse proxy is a compelling infrastructure showcase. Include comments in your Nginx config explaining non-obvious decisions — this demonstrates that you understand what each directive does and can maintain it over time, which is rare and valuable.