NGINX Summary

The NGINX gateway is the centralized ingress layer for my homelab environment. It provides:

• TLS termination with an A+ SSL Labs posture

• Reverse proxying for internal applications

• Static site hosting for my portfolio

• Protocol forwarding (HTTP/S, WebSocket, RTSP)

• Security enforcement through hardened defaults

• Internal DNS integration for .serv and .houzu domains

This gateway unifies all external and internal traffic under a single, secure, maintainable, and reproducible design.

It is built according to my personal Standard Operating Philosophy (SOP), which ensures that every component — from TLS to proxy headers — follows a consistent engineering standard.