[월:] 2018년 04월

Updating the NGINX Application Platform Today, our vision to simplify the journey to microservices takes a big step forward. We are announcing the upcoming availability of the next version of our flagship software, NGINX Plus R15, with exciting new features, and the upcoming launches of NGINX Unit 1.0 and NGINX Controller R1. Combined, these launches advance the NGINX Application Platform, a product suite that includes a load balancer, content cache, API gateway, WAF, and application server – all with centralized monitoring and management for monolithic apps, for microservices, and for transitional apps. The NGINX Application Platform is our vision for building microservices The NGINX Application Platform has already gained tremendous traction. More than 11 million new domains install NGINX Open Source each month – four instances every second. Three million instances of NGINX Open Source are running in production microservices environments. One million [ more… ]

What is a Service Mesh? A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for a microservices application. It makes communication among service instances flexible, reliable, and fast. The mesh provides service discovery, load balancing, encryption, authentication and authorization, support for the circuit breaker pattern, and other capabilities. The service mesh is usually implemented by providing a proxy instance, called a sidecar, for each service instance. Sidecars handle communications within the app. Istio, backed by Google, IBM, and Lyft, is currently the best‑known service mesh architecture. Kubernetes, which was originally designed by Google, is currently the only container orchestration framework supported by Istio. Service mesh comes with its own terminology for component services and functions: Container orchestration framework. As more and more containers are added to an application’s infrastructure, a separate tool for monitoring and managing the set of containers – a [ more… ]