Tag: Nginx
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Getting started with the Ansible collection for NGINX controller
Posted on May 28, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Recently, NGINX announced the release of the Ansible collection for NGINX Controller. The collection contains a set of Ansible Roles that make it easy to incorporate NGINX Controller into your workflows. You can automate routine tasks such as generating ephemeral API tokens, managing certificate lifecycles, and configuring Controller objects (Gateways, Applications, and Components). By Brian Ehlert.
Tags nginx ansible programming devops
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NGINX structural enhancements for HTTP/2 performance
Posted on May 27, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
The blog post from pen of Nick Jones published on cloudflare.com. It is about experience of his team which deals with features related to: TCP, QUIC, TLS and Secure Certificate management, HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. They were responsible for implementing the Enhanced HTTP/2 Prioritization product.
Tags nginx web-performance web-development
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Kubernetes ingress controller setup using KOP and Nginx-Ingress
Posted on January 26, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
A tutorial by Lokesh Jawane explaining how to set up Kubernetes ingress controller using kops (Kubernetes Operations) & Nginx-Ingress. Kops automates the provisioning of Kubernetes clusters in AWS and GCE. Authors like to think of kops as kubectl for clusters.
Tags web-development kubernetes apis nginx containers
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How to make WordPress page cache plugins fly with NGINX
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ashley Rich posted an article about improving WordPress performance uisng NGINX caching. There are a ton of WordPress page caching plugins available, but limiting yourself to cache plugins alone means leaving significant performance improvements on the table.
Tags nginx web-development php programming
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Load balancing with HAProxy, Nginx and Keepalived in Linux
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tutorial by Rishi Raj Gautam on linuxhandbook.com focusing on load balancers. Having a proper set up of load balancer allows your web server to handle high traffic smoothly instead of crashing down. In this tutorial, he explains how to setup a load balancer with high availability.
Tags nginx web-development cloud software-architecture
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NGINX Unit supports TLS and JavaScript apps with Node.js
Posted on November 3, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Nick Shadrin of NGINX, Inc. wrote this article about TLS and Nodejs apps support in NGINX Unit. NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API.
Tags nginx programming iot devops miscellaneous nodejs javascript infosec
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Setting up a reverse-proxy with NGINX and docker-compose
Posted on July 28, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Dominik Weber tutorial how to set up reverse-proxy with NGINX, which can then handle server-related aspects, like SSL and caching, completely transparent to the application behind it. It is good practice in general to not make internal services public-facing that don't have to be.
Tags nginx how-to performance web-development web-performance
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How to host multiple web sites with NGINX and HAProxy using LXD on Ubuntu
Posted on November 17, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Simos Xenitellis wrote an article for digitalocean.com about hosting web application in LXD containers. For many Docker became de facto container solution of choice, but there are different Linux containers available. This article is about LXD which can create and manage these containers. LXD provides a hypervisor service to manage the entire life cycle of containers.
Tags containers nginx docker
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How Algolia Reduces Latency For 21B Searches Per Month
Posted on May 6, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Josh Dzielak, Developer Advocate as Algolia wrote interesting article about building search engine from scratch.
Tags search nginx servers
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Detecting Bots in Apache & Nginx Logs
Posted on March 12, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Mark Litwintschik put together this article to help server admins with separating bot and human-generated traffic in web server logs, which can be challenging.
Tags nginx servers infosec
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Introducing the Microservices Reference Architecture from NGINX
Posted on January 4, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
This article is about developing the NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture (MRA) - a set of models that you can use to create your own microservices applications.
Tags microservices nginx