Autoscaling and Orchestration with NGINX Plus and Chef
Autoscaling and Orchestration with NGINX Plus and Chef Introduction There are many solutions for handling autoscaling in cloud environments, but they’re usually dependent on the specific infrastructure of a given cloud provider. Leveraging the flexibility of NGINX Plus with the functionality of Chef, we can build an autoscaling system that can be used on most cloud providers. Chef has a tool, knife, which you can use at the command line to act on objects such as cookbooks, nodes, data bags, and more. Knife plugins help you extend knife. So we use knife plugins to help abstract out functionality specific to one specific cloud, enabling knife commands to work the same way across clouds. Requirements For this setup, we’ll be leveraging our NGINX Chef cookbook. The installation and a basic overview of this cookbook can be found here. Also, we’ll be utilizing [ more… ]
