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Service Discovery for NGINX Plus with ZooKeeper Our previous blog posts about service discovery with Consul and etcd discussed the importance of service discovery in distributed systems, including service-oriented and microservices architectures. In such systems it’s common to assign network locations to service instances dynamically, because their locations can change over time due to autoscaling, failures, or upgrades. To track the current network location of a service instance, clients need a sophisticated service discovery mechanism. In this blog, we’ll explain how to dynamically add or remove load-balanced servers that are registered with Apache ZooKeeperTM, a tool used for service discovery, in combination with NGINX Plus’ on-the-fly reconfiguration API. With this solution you can automate service discovery and change the set of load-balanced servers without having to reload the NGINX Plus configuration. Apache ZooKeeper is a software project of the Apache Software Foundation [ more… ]

Submit a Talk and Register Now for nginx.conf 2016! We’re excited to announce that registration and the Call for Proposals are now open for nginx.conf 2016. We’re looking forward to seeing you in Austin, TX this September 7-9. Register now to save $400! Early bird pricing is available until May 19. Share your story about how you’re using NGINX and NGINX Plus to help you achieve performance, security, and scale for your web applications. Whether you’re deploying your app in the cloud, on bare metal, or a combination, we want to hear how you’re using NGINX across any type of application and in any sort of environment. We’d love to see talks on any of the topics below: Architecting, Developing, & Deploying Code Scaling and Securing Applications NGINX-specific and NGINX Plus-Specific Case Studies & Best Practices Submit your ideas to [ more… ]