Building

Run docker build -t faker . in the same directory where you find the Dockerfile and nginx.conf.

Running

Given a directory structure like:

  ./
    Dockerfile
    nginx.conf
    /data
      /api
        /files
          2bc3994a98b.json
          index.json
      /bin
        /files
          2bc3994a98b.png

To start the server and use the data directory for the API just run:

docker
  run
  --name faker
  -p 8080:8080
  --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/data,target=/usr/share/nginx/html
  -it
  faker

Run docker rm faker if you get an error about the container name already being in use.

Extending

If you want to bake the data into the image you need to edit the Dockerfile and uncomment/edit the line: COPY data /usr/share/nginx/html to match what directory you want to add.

The added data should result in two directories, /usr/share/nginx/html/api and /usr/share/nginx/html/bin, being added to the image.

Anything under /api should be folders with index.json and [id].json files to be served for requests like: http://localhost/api/files (/api/files/index.json) or http://localhost/api/files/[id] (/api/files/[id].json). These will all be served with a mime type of application/json.

Under /bin everything will be served with a default mime type of application/octet-stream or a compatible binary mime type appropriate for the file. The structure here is up to you, it is just for serving static files.