I’ve been recommended Traefik before for exactly those type of reasons, it’s cloud native and works really well with containers. But is a little harder to learn, still very much in development so the documentation is confusing and changing… I’m going to wait a little while until I’m more comfortable doing things the “hard way” (meaning Nginx) for now.
As for docker-compose that’s what I’m planning on using, and simply bind mount the configuration files that nginx needs to forward requests. But, at the same time there’s a chance that reverse-proxy container is deployed in a different node than the one with the configuration file (I’m currently using Docker Swarm) so maybe is worth simply building a new container with these files already built into it. I’m not sure still how volumes work when using orchestrators, but I really don’t want to dive into Kubernetes as that’s probably too complex for me.