I have been thinking a lot lately about how to make it possible to accommodate customization of the nginx configuration while still maintaining compatibility with ee updates. Because nginx does not allow any kind of conditional includes or hierarchical overriding of configurations, this is challenging.
I just came up with one kinda, sorta semi-solution for this issue and submitted it as a proposal to solve a particular problem with redis page caching.
Rather than copy-pasting the whole proposal here, I’ll just point anyone interested to the issue on the easy engine github repo: