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Authenticating API Clients with JWT and NGINX Plus table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } td { padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } JSON Web Tokens (JWTs, pronounced “jots”) are a compact and highly portable means of exchanging identity information. The JWT specification has been an important underpinning of OpenID Connect, providing a single sign‑on token for the OAuth 2.0 ecosystem. JWTs can also be used as authentication credentials in their own right and are a better way to control access to web‑based APIs than traditional API keys. With the release of NGINX Plus R10, NGINX Plus can validate JWTs directly. In this blog post we describe how you can use NGINX Plus as an API gateway, providing a frontend to an API endpoint [ more… ]

High‑Performance Caching with NGINX and NGINX Plus This post is adapted from a webinar by Owen Garrett, introduced by Andrew Alexeev. Table of Contents Introduction  0:00 Introduction  1:22 About This Webinar  2:17 Basic Principles of Content Caching  2:35 Basic Principles  3:59 Mechanics of HTTP Caching  7:46 What does NGINX cache? Content Caching and NGINX  9:55 NGINX in Operation 10:06 NGINX Config 11:14 Caching Process 15:32 Caching is Not Just for HTTP 17:10 How To Understand What’s Going On 17:38 Cache Instrumentation 19:08 Cache Instrumentation (Cont.) 20:09 Extended Status 21:57 How Content Caching Functions in NGINX 22:40 How It Works 23:53 How is Cached Content Stored? 26:36 Loading Cache From Disk 28:07 Managing the Disk Cache 29:22 Purging Content From Disk Controlling Caching 31:27 Controlling Caching 32:30 Delayed Caching 34:45 Control Over Cache Time 36:18 Cache / Don’t Cache 37:25 Multiple Caches 39:07 [ more… ]