NGINX Plus as a Virtual Load Balancer
NGINX Plus as a Virtual Load Balancer Although virtual machines have been overshadowed in recent years by the buzz around containers, their use continues to increase. NGINX and NGINX Plus are widely used as a virtual load balancer in such deployments. In this article we spell out the many advantages of virtual load balancers for many use cases and describe how to quickly and easily implement NGINX Plus as a virtual load balancer. Prebuilt and Build‑It‑Yourself Virtual Machines Virtualized load balancing offers much more flexibility than hardware‑based load balancers or application delivery controllers (ADCs), and so the major hardware vendors have created virtualized offerings, commonly referred to as virtual appliances. These appliances are prebuilt, meaning that the vendor creates a virtual machine image with its proprietary software preinstalled on a particular operating system. As such, a prebuilt virtual appliance is tied to [ more… ]
