Nginx Upload limits on Beanstalk Docker

If I am not wrong, nginx only allows you to upload up till max 2Mb of data by default. If you are doing a docker deployment on beanstalk you may to remember to change that not once but twice!

As you may know already, beanstalk creates an EC2 instance to manage the docker environment.
Since EC2 needs to manage the docker environment and serve the web interface as well, it does so by having another nginx instance to serve the nginx within docker. Hence, if you had to modify the nginx settings to allow bigger uploads, you’d have to modify the settings for nginx on both - docker as well as EC2.

    # max upload size
    client_max_body_size 10M;   # adjust to your liking

Also, if you don’t want to have any limit at all for uploads, then just change the client_max_body_size to 0.

    # max upload size
    client_max_body_size 0;