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NGINX Plus R10 Harnesses IBM POWER

2016-09-03 KENNETH 0

NGINX Plus R10 Harnesses IBM POWER We recently announced NGINX Plus R10, the latest release of our commercial load balancer and web accelerator software with an optional WAF, additional security features, and more. In addition to making NGINX Plus more capable for enterprises looking to gain agility in delivering their critical applications, NGINX Plus R10 now supports servers based on IBM’s POWER microprocessor architecture (ppc64le). With the combination of NGINX Plus and POWER, businesses can optimize their stack from the chip up to provide services at the scale required by today’s leading Internet companies. POWER is a general‑purpose, open source microprocessor architecture designed for performance and scalability – just like NGINX Plus. POWER solutions are driven by innovation from the OpenPOWER Foundation and are built upon by a community of more than 2,300 ISVs supporting Linux on POWER. The architecture is increasingly used for high‑end applications such as cloud computing, big data [ more… ]

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Migrating Layer 7 Logic from F5 iRules and Citrix Policies to NGINX and NGINX Plus

2016-09-02 KENNETH 0

Migrating Layer 7 Logic from F5 iRules and Citrix Policies to NGINX and NGINX Plus Administrators of traditional hardware application delivery controllers (ADCs) are often faced with use cases that the rule sets provided by ADC vendors don’t cover, and certainly not at the necessary fine‑grained level of control over how requests and responses are processed. As a result, most organizations have written their own custom rules, and as they move to software‑based load balancers, whether on premises or in the cloud, they need an easy way to migrate that ADC logic along with their applications. NGINX and NGINX Plus offer a powerful configuration language that covers many of these use cases. This blog post explains how to convert several common types of policies or scripts from popular hardware ADCs to NGINX configuration blocks. We here at NGINX, Inc. have found that many times the [ more… ]

Setting Up NGINX

2016-09-01 KENNETH 0

Setting Up NGINX Setting Up NGINX and Configuring NGINX as a Proxy Since its introduction more than a decade ago, NGINX has become the most popular web server for busy websites. More than 160 million websites use NGINX, including more than half of the top 100,000 websites. With NGINX having reached such popularity, it makes sense to use NGINX for all your web serving needs, and additionally to take advantage of its capabilities as a reverse proxy server, caching server, load balancer, and more. This blog post will help you get NGINX up and running on Ubuntu Linux on Amazon Web Services (AWS), an easy-to-use setup that doesn’t affect the settings on your personal computer. This blog post covers both NGINX and NGINX Plus. Once you complete the steps given here, you may want to continue with two instructor-led courses [ more… ]

Introducing NGINX Core Training

2016-08-30 KENNETH 0

Introducing NGINX Core Training Thousand of students have already taken advantage of NGINX training courses, learning how to configure and run both the open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus. Now we’ve updated the NGINX training curriculum to include their feedback and the latest product features. NGINX Core is an all‑day, instructor‑led class that provides the foundation you need to administer, configure, and manage NGINX and NGINX Plus. NGINX Core combines lecture, instructor demos, and hands‑on labs. NGINX Core is intended for admins, architects, and DevOps professionals who are self‑taught or new to NGINX. Participants don’t need NGINX experience, just a basic understanding of web servers and of the Unix command line. Required skills include running Unix commands, navigating the file system, and creating and editing text files. The new course features deeper conceptual and hands‑on coverage of key areas like proxy, caching, logging, [ more… ]

Authenticating API Clients with JWT and NGINX Plus

2016-08-26 KENNETH 0

Authenticating API Clients with JWT and NGINX Plus table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } td { padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } JSON Web Tokens (JWTs, pronounced “jots”) are a compact and highly portable means of exchanging identity information. The JWT specification has been an important underpinning of OpenID Connect, providing a single sign‑on token for the OAuth 2.0 ecosystem. JWTs can also be used as authentication credentials in their own right and are a better way to control access to web‑based APIs than traditional API keys. With the release of NGINX Plus R10, NGINX Plus can validate JWTs directly. In this blog post we describe how you can use NGINX Plus as an API gateway, providing a frontend to an API endpoint [ more… ]