Articles by KENNETH

Announcing the NGINX Core Collection for Ansible It’s the Year of Ansible at NGINX. We believe in an app‑centric approach to application delivery that enables intelligent scaling of apps at the point of a bottleneck, eliminating the need to scale infrastructure across the entire app. Key in making this approach a reality is the vast ecosystem of CI/CD tools used by developers. As one of the most popular automation tools, Ansible enables NGINX users to quickly automate repetitive tasks across the app lifecycle. That’s why we’ve made a major investment in building out more Ansible roles and collections to enable easy automation of your NGINX environment. Over the last five years, we’ve grown our Ansible integration from a single blog post to two certified collections and 20+ roles – most of which were created in the last 9 months! Why Use Ansible to [ more… ]

Automating Installation of WordPress with NGINX Unit on Ubuntu There is an incredible amount of information out there about installing WordPress – a Google search for “WordPress install” yields 488,000 results as of this writing. Yet among those results are very few tutorials that comprehensively explain how to install both WordPress and the underlying operating system in a way that’s maintainable in the long term. Perhaps that’s because the right configuration varies so much depending on specific needs, or perhaps it’s because a comprehensive guide doesn’t make for an easy-to-read article. In this post we’re trying to combine the best of both worlds, by providing a bash script that automates WordPress installation on Ubuntu and walking through it to explain what each section does and the design trade‑offs we made. (If you are an advanced user, you may want to skip this [ more… ]