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Secure Your API Gateway with NGINX App Protect WAF As monoliths move to microservices, applications are developed faster than ever. Speed is necessary to stay competitive and APIs sit at the front of these rapid modernization efforts. But the popularity of APIs for application modernization has significant implications for app security. APIs are vulnerable attack targets, exposing application logic and sensitive data to other apps or third parties. As API usage grows, so does the need for API gateways.   According to F5’s 2021 State of Application Strategy Report, organizations are using various methods to modernize, and APIs top these modernization efforts: 58% are adding a layer of APIs to enable modern user interfaces 51% are adding modern application components (e.g. Kubernetes) 47% are refactoring (modifying application code itself) 40% are moving to public cloud (lift and shift) without modernizing [ more… ]

Introducing F5 NGINX for Azure – Load Balancing Available Natively as a SaaS Offering on Microsoft Azure High-performing cloud and development teams working in Microsoft Azure have come to appreciate the benefits of putting F5 NGINX Plus to work in their cloud environment. But high performance isn’t a destination – it’s an ongoing journey. Cloud architects and DevOps teams have asked us to take the powerful combination of NGINX Plus and Azure even further. At the top of their wish lists, customers have asked for a native Azure software as a service (SaaS) experience with NGINX products and the flexibility of Bring Your Own Configuration (BYOC) on Azure. Microsoft and F5 NGINX have listened and taken those wishes to heart, joining forces for the past two years to collaborate on fulfilling them. Today, we are excited to announce that NGINX Plus is now native [ more… ]

Announcing Version 1.0.0 of the NGINX Modern Apps Reference Architecture We were upfront with our design goals when we unveiled the NGINX Modern Applications Reference Architecture (MARA) at Sprint 2.0 in August of 2021. We wanted to create an example of a modern application architecture running in Kubernetes and designed to support security, scalability, reliability, monitoring, and introspection. This project needed to be deployable across different infrastructures with a “plug and play” approach to combining functional components without time‑consuming integration efforts. In the months since Sprint, we have been moving forward with our roadmap. Like any project, we have had our share of success and failure and have worked our successes into MARA while keeping a growing list of lessons learned. We hope that we may keep others from hitting the same problems by documenting these issues and designing with these lessons in [ more… ]