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The Greatest Hits of 2021 on the NGINX Blog As the turmoil caused by the COVID‑19 pandemic continued throughout 2021, we at NGINX tried to rise to the challenge and keep driving forward to make positive changes for our community, partners, and customers. Approaching the end of the year, we take this opportunity to look back at a selection of the biggest and most popular blog articles we published, as voted by you, our community. Read on to see what major events we covered, and to catch up on interesting news and topics you may have missed! How to Choose a Service Mesh As your Kubernetes deployment matures, it can be a challenge to know when a service mesh will yield benefits and not just additional complexity. And once you know you need a service mesh, choosing the right one isn’t [ more… ]

Six Ways to Secure Kubernetes Using Traffic Management Tools Editor – This post is part of a 10-part series: Reduce Complexity with Production-Grade Kubernetes How to Improve Resilience in Kubernetes with Advanced Traffic Management How to Improve Visibility in Kubernetes Six Ways to Secure Kubernetes Using Traffic Management Tools (this post) A Guide to Choosing an Ingress Controller, Part 1: Identify Your Requirements A Guide to Choosing an Ingress Controller, Part 2: Risks and Future-Proofing A Guide to Choosing an Ingress Controller, Part 3: Open Source vs. Default vs. Commercial A Guide to Choosing an Ingress Controller, Part 4: NGINX Ingress Controller Options How to Choose a Service Mesh Performance Testing NGINX Ingress Controllers in a Dynamic Kubernetes Cloud Environment You can also download the complete set of blogs as a free eBook – Taking Kubernetes from Test to Production. As discussed [ more… ]

Rewinding 2021: The Year’s Top 5 NGINX Videos Despite any offline disruptions we all experienced during 2021, it was a fantastic year for video, livestreams, and webinars here at NGINX. We enjoyed great conversations with our community of users, customers, and partners, and took a look at trends and topics of interest in the world of digital transformation, app security, open source, DevOps, and Kubernetes. In this blog post, we review the five video broadcasts that were most popular with our viewers over the past year, giving you a second chance to learn from our leading experts on current topics of interest. (You might notice that some videos first appeared in previous years – we like to think that means we’re ahead of the curve!) We hope you enjoy. How to Improve Visibility in Kubernetes with Prometheus, Grafana, and NGINX Kubernetes is [ more… ]

How Do I Choose? API Gateway vs. Ingress Controller vs. Service Mesh In just about every webinar about Ingress controllers and service meshes that we’ve delivered over the course of 2021, we’ve heard some variation of the questions “How is this tool different from an API gateway?” or “Do I need both an API gateway and an Ingress controller (or service mesh) in Kubernetes?” The confusion is totally understandable for two reasons: Ingress controllers and service meshes can fulfill many API gateway use cases. Some vendors position their API gateway tool as an alternative to using an Ingress controller or service mesh – or they roll all three capabilities into one tool. In this blog we tackle how these tools differ and which to use for Kubernetes‑specific API gateway use cases. For a deeper dive, including demos, watch the webinar API Gateway [ more… ]