Three Ways NGINX Scales Applications Running in Docker Containers Today, enterprises are modernizing their applications to support ever-growing digital business requirements. Containers are a key component of that transformation, and Docker is core to the container revolution. Containers are the foundation for bringing portability to legacy applications, as well as a lightweight package for modern, microservices-based apps. And usage of NGINX and of Docker have grown hand in hand; the official NGINX image is one of the top downloads on Docker Hub. Ask anyone who has deployed hundreds or even thousands of Docker containers — especially in production — and you’ll quickly find that native load balancers, API gateways, and Ingress controllers are needed to stitch together a containerized app. That’s where NGINX comes in. NGINX Helps Bring Containerized Apps to Life NGINX provides a single Application Platform for running [ more… ]