unit Docker official image overview

⁠DEPRECATION NOTICE

As of October 2025, NGINX Unit is archived and unmaintained. The images will not receive release or security updates.

https://github.com/nginx/unit?tab=readme-ov-file#note-this-repository-has-been-archived-there-will-likely-be-no-further-development-at-this-repo-and-security-vulnerabilities-may-be-unaddressed⁠

⁠Quick reference

• Maintained by:
  the Unit Docker Maintainers⁠

• Where to get help:
  the GitHub issues page⁠, the NGINX Community Slack⁠

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

No supported tags

⁠Quick reference (cont.)

• Where to file issues:
  https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues⁠

• Supported architectures: (more info⁠)
  No supported architectures

• Published image artifact details:
  repo-info repo's repos/unit/ directory⁠ (history⁠)
  (image metadata, transfer size, etc)

• Image updates:
  official-images repo's library/unit label⁠
  official-images repo's library/unit file⁠ (history⁠)

• Source of this description:
  docs repo's unit/ directory⁠ (history⁠)

⁠What is Unit?

NGINX Unit is a lightweight and versatile application runtime that provides the essential components for your web application as a single open-source server: running application code, serving static assets, handling TLS and request routing.

For more information, check out Key Features⁠.

⁠Available tags

Please see Unit's website⁠ for details.

⁠How to use this image

Please check the Initial Configuration⁠ section on Unit's website. Additionally, our Docker howto⁠ can be of help.

⁠License

View license information⁠ for the software contained in this image.

As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).

Some additional license information which was able to be auto-detected might be found in the repo-info repository's unit/ directory⁠.

As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.