Using NGINX Plus for Backend Upgrades with Zero Downtime, Part 1 – Overview
Using NGINX Plus for Backend Upgrades with Zero Downtime, Part 1 – Overview Upgrading backend servers in a production environment can be a challenge for your operations or DevOps team, whether they are dealing with an individual server or upgrading an application by moving to a new set of servers. Putting upstream servers behind NGINX Plus can make the upgrade process much more manageable while also eliminating or greatly lessening downtime. In a three-part series of articles, we’ll focus on NGINX Plus – with a number of features above and beyond those in the open source NGINX software, it’s a more comprehensive and controllable solution for upgrades with zero downtime. This first article describes the two NGINX Plus features you can use for backend upgrades – the on-the-fly reconfiguration API and health checks – in detail and compares them to upgrading with the open source NGINX software. The related articles explain how [ more… ]
