Safer Configuration Management with NGINX Controller Talking with our customers over the past year, we’ve noticed a few recurring themes that motivate them to evaluate orchestration products such as NGINX Controller: Complexity – Managing, maintaining, validating, and applying large sets of individual configuration objects from different sources isn’t easy. Fragility – Scaling up can happen quickly, often in response to an event. Sometimes it’s strategic, but as is often the case in every ops department, it’s unplanned and organic. Safety – Avoiding errors and catching problems before deployment to production are cornerstones of agile methodology. They also help mitigate complexity and fragility. These are not concerns that customers generally face when first deploy an application. Rather, they crop up as time passes and the application becomes successful and needs to scale up. We find that scaling – or more precisely, unplanned scaling – is the common [ more… ]