The mTLS Architecture in NGINX Service Mesh

2021-04-23 KENNETH 0

The mTLS Architecture in NGINX Service Mesh “Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.” – Edward Snowden One thing I’ve learned over the past few years is that our data is one of the most valuable things we own. Hackers know this and will do anything to get at it, and the automated attacks they launch make it easier than ever. I once made the mistake of leaving an SSH port on my Raspberry Pi open on the Internet. When I looked at the logs months later, I noticed multiple IP addresses had been hammering it with brute‑force password guessing scripts. I immediately closed off the port and made a note to check logs more frequently. Though a breach of my Raspberry Pi wouldn’t have got the hackers much, a data breach of a [ more… ]

NGINX Is the Foundation of Modern App Performance

2021-04-19 KENNETH 0

NGINX Is the Foundation of Modern App Performance Exceptional application performance isn’t possible without the right foundation, one that provides – at minimum! – security, reliability, accuracy, visibility, control, and automation. For us at NGINX, building and optimizing that foundation has been our core mission for 20 years. Whether you’ve been with us since Day 1 or only since yesterday, our focus on helping you to build and deliver fast modern apps is at the heart of our plan for our future, and yours. Supporting the App’s Hierarchy of Needs You might remember Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from Psych 101. Dr. Maslow outlines five levels of human needs – starting with basic physical needs (air, food, shelter) and culminating in the desire to reach one’s full potential – and proposes that more basic needs must be met before we can devote attention and energy to higher‑level needs. [ more… ]

Enhanced TCP/UDP Load Balancing and WAF Configuration with NGINX Ingress Controller

2021-04-01 KENNETH 0

Enhanced TCP/UDP Load Balancing and WAF Configuration with NGINX Ingress Controller table.nginx-blog, table.nginx-blog th, table.nginx-blog td { border: 2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } table.nginx-blog { width: 100%; } table.nginx-blog th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td { padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td.center { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } While the standard Kubernetes Ingress resource is great for provisioning and configuring basic Ingress load balancing, it doesn’t include the kind of customization features required to make Kubernetes production‑grade. Instead, non‑NGINX users are left to use annotations, ConfigMaps, and custom templates which are error‑prone, difficult to use, and not secure, and lack fine‑grained scoping. NGINX Ingress resources are our answer to this problem. NGINX Ingress resources are [ more… ]

How to Improve Resilience in Kubernetes with Advanced Traffic Management

2021-03-30 KENNETH 0

How to Improve Resilience in Kubernetes with Advanced Traffic Management There’s a very easy way to tell that a company isn’t successfully using modern app development technologies – its customers are quick to complain on social media. They complain when they can’t stream the latest bingeworthy release. Or access online banking. Or make a purchase, because the cart is timing out. Even if customers don’t complain publicly, that doesn’t mean their bad experience doesn’t have consequences. One of our customers – a large insurance company – told us that they lose customers when their homepage doesn’t load within 3 seconds. All of those user complaints of poor performance or outages point to a common culprit: resiliency…or the lack of it. The beauty of microservices technologies – including containers and Kubernetes – is that they can significantly improve the customer experience by improving the resiliency of [ more… ]

NGINX Steps Up to F5 Agility 2021 with App-Driven Events

2021-03-25 KENNETH 0

NGINX Steps Up to F5 Agility 2021 with App-Driven Events This year, F5 Agility returns to the online stage April 20–22 with a wide range of information sessions, talks, and workshops designed to help you get the most out of F5’s products, services, and third‑party integrations. NGINX, as part of F5, has prepared a set of content tailored with you in mind, complete with the latest product releases and features as well as thought‑provoking discussions on app delivery, security, digital architecture, and microservices deployment. Here’s just a short selection of talks and other events which will undoubtedly be of interest to the NGINX community. Find out more about F5 Agility and register! Production-Grade Kubernetes in Action Demand for improved and innovative approaches to deploying Kubernetes has risen sharply over the past few years, and NGINX has risen to the occasion with [ more… ]