Articles by KENNETH

Fun with Health Checks using NGINX Plus and Docker This post is adapted from a presentation at nginx.conf 2017 by Rick Nelson, Head of the Sales Engineering Team at NGINX, Inc. You can view the complete presentation on YouTube. My name is Rick Nelson, and I head up the pre-sales engineering team here at NGINX. Today, I’m going to talk about some different ideas about how you can use health checks  – the active health checks in NGINX Plus  – when you need to worry about system resources, and specifically, when you’re running in containers. I assume, since you’re here at an NGINX conference, that most of you know about NGINX Open Source. You may be aware that NGINX Open Source does have a version of health checks, but the health checks are passive. When NGINX Open Source sends a [ more… ]