Nginx

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Proxing requests to backend

    location /api/ {
      proxy_pass http://${API_HOST}:${API_PORT}/api/;
      include /etc/nginx/options-proxy-nginx.conf;
      break;
    }

Reference nginx-conf
How to deal with dynamic upstream locations
Nginx location priority and http core module docs
1. Directives with the "=" prefix that match the query exactly. If found, searching stops.
2. All remaining directives with conventional strings. If this match used the "^~" prefix, searching stops.
3. Regular expressions, in the order they are defined in the configuration file.
4. If #3 yielded a match, that result is used. Otherwise, the match from #2 is used