feat: containerise the site with nginx-unprivileged

Serve the static site from a non-root nginx image listening on 8080,
with cache headers, gzip and a /healthz endpoint. Designed to run behind
an external reverse proxy that terminates TLS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Emma Thorpe
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# Static file serving for "Why is the DLR shut today?".
# Intended to run behind an external reverse proxy (e.g. NGINX) which
# handles TLS, host routing and any X-Forwarded-* headers.
server {
listen 8080;
listen [::]:8080;
server_name _;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html;
gzip on;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_types text/css application/javascript;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
# HTML should always be revalidated so deploys are picked up promptly.
location = /index.html {
add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
}
# The message list is edited frequently; do not cache it.
location = /messages.js {
add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
}
# Other static assets may be cached for a short period.
location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
}
# Health endpoint for the proxy / orchestrator.
location = /healthz {
access_log off;
default_type text/plain;
return 200 "ok\n";
}
}