Articles by KENNETH

NGINX and Zookeeper, Dynamic Load Balancing and Deployments This post is adapted from a webinar hosted at nginx.conf from September 22-24, 2015 by Derek DeJonghe. Table of Contents Introduction Introduction; Who am I?; Topics; The Actors; Goals Cloud and DevOps Concepts Cloud and DevOps Concepts; Microservices; Microservice Complexity; Deploying with More Services; Continuous Deployment; Blue-Green; Blue-Green Deployment; Blue-Green Deployment with NGINX; AutoScaling; Autoscaling Example; Elastic Load Balancer; Why NGINX? ZooKeeper and NGINX Service Discovery; ZooKeeper; Znode Example; How They Work; Node Client; NGINX Client; The Upstream Pools; Application x Version; Pseudocode for Upstream Pools; Result; Requests; Requests Example; Request to Upstream; Request Pseudocode Outcomes The Deploys; Deploys; Deploy Example; The Outcome; Before Implementation; After Implementation; Impact; Questions 0:00 Introduction Welcome, thank you guys for joining me today at NGINX.conf. I’m here to talk about dynamic load balancing and deployments with [ more… ]

OpenShift Ecosystem: Implementing the NGINX Proxy Model on Red Hat OpenShift We here at NGINX are part of the launch of OpenShift Primed, a technology program announced today with the launch of the OpenShift Container Platform. The first result of this collaboration will be making the enterprise-ready features of NGINX Plus available with the Kubernetes Ingress controller and OpenShift Origin. We are also continuing to develop the Microservices Reference Architecture (MRA) for general release later this year. In advance of general release, we are using the MRA with NGINX Professional Services clients, deploying each of the three Models – the Proxy Model, the Router Mesh Model (blog post under development), and the Fabric Model – on a variety of platforms. One of our most interesting recent deployments has been to Red Hat’s OpenShift platform, an open source app development platform [ more… ]