NEWS

Announcing NGINX Ingress Controller Release 1.9.0 We are happy to announce release 1.9.0 of the NGINX Ingress Controller. This release builds upon the development of our supported solution for Ingress load balancing on Kubernetes platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), IBM Cloud Private, Diamanti, and others. With release 1.9.0, we continue our commitment to providing a flexible, powerful and easy-to-use Ingress Controller, which can be configured with both Kubernetes Ingress Resources and NGINX Ingress Resources: Kubernetes Ingress resources provide maximum compatibility across Ingress Controller implementations, and can be extended using annotations and custom templates to generate sophisticated configuration. NGINX Ingress resources provide an NGINX‑specific configuration schema, which is richer and safer than customizing the generic Kubernetes Ingress resources. In release 1.8.0 and later, NGINX Ingress resources can [ more… ]

What Customers Tell Us They Need for Modern API Management As a Sales lead for NGINX at F5, I often interact with customers that are using more than one API management framework. One customer I spoke with has five at last count! Why is this? There can be many reasons, but one situation we come across again and again is that as customers are transforming their applications from monolithic architectures to more microservices‑based architectures, they’re finding that their traditional API management framework no longer satisfies all their requirements. Before we examine the ways these traditional frameworks are no longer adequate, let’s take a look back at how we got to where we are today… The Evolution of Software Integration Architecture During the early 2000s we saw a growing requirement for an integration layer able to connect various front‑end services to [ more… ]