nginx-upgrade(8)

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version 1.30.6 · 5 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ nginx-upgrade — the glow-up your nginx deserves ✨

okay bestie, so this is nginx-upgrade(8) from the Nginx Zero-Downtime Upgrade Utility manual 🎀 and it's literally the tool that upgrades your nginx without any downtime. no dropped connections. no angry users. no 3am pager. periodt 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

nginx-upgrade — tool to upgrade nginx without any downtime

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

nginx-upgrade

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea, bestie ☕ this downstream shell script updates nginx with zero downtime. Not "barely any". Not "a little bit of downtime if you squint". None. 🫶

The flow is giving main character energy:

  1. You upgrade nginx via the package manager first, like a good little sysadmin 👑
  2. You run this script ✨
  3. It creates a new nginx master — and that new master takes over all new requests 💚
  4. The old masters and workers are then gracefully shut down, without breaking any existing connections 🕊️

it's giving "changing the tires while the car is still driving" and honestly? iconic 😭🔥

ngl the old masters and workers don't just get yeeted — they're shut down gracefully, which is the whole point. existing connections stay alive. no cap.

For further information, see: <http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html>

💀 BUGS 💀

If you find any bugs, please send an email to the author 📧 (yes fr, just email them — they wanna know 🫶)

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

  • Felix Kaechele <felix@kaechele.ca> 👑

Originally written by Jamie Nguyen <jamielinux@fedoraproject.org> 🌸

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate 💅 this was nginx-upgrade(8) from the Nginx Zero-Downtime Upgrade Utility, version 1.30.6-2.fc43, dated 2026-03-08 — go forth and upgrade with zero downtime, you absolute legend 🌈⭐

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