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Easy and Robust Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect and NGINX Ingress Controller With the release of NGINX Ingress Controller 1.10.0, we are happy to announce a major enhancement: a technology preview of OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. OIDC is the identity layer built on top of the OAuth 2.0 framework which provides an authentication and single sign‑on (SSO) solution for modern apps. Our OIDC policy is a full‑fledged SSO solution enabling users to securely authenticate with multiple applications and Kubernetes services. Significantly, it enables apps to use an external identity provider (IdP) to authenticate users and frees the apps from having to handle usernames or passwords. This new capability complements other NGINX Ingress Controller authorization and authentication features, such as JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, to provide a robust SSO option that is easy to configure with NGINX Ingress resources. This means you [ more… ]

Managing Your Greatest Asset – People One of the best managers I ever worked under as a network engineer had a knack for helping me understand which projects and tasks were important to the business, and which were not. I was working for a medical manufacturing company, and during team meetings, we would hear, “Upper management is putting a focus on this project. Let’s talk about the rumors … now let’s talk about what’s real.” Following those discussions, Richard would start divvying out project assignments to meet the business goals. This management method has some fantastic benefits for individual contributors: It points the team towards a common goal. Most network engineers want to be proud of the work they do and have it contribute to the business. When direct‑line managers can help separate the wheat from the chaff, work requirements [ more… ]

Self-Service Application Delivery Bridges the Divide Between Developer Productivity and Infrastructure Reliability The modern market demands agility, flexibility, and above all, speed. The faster you crank out new applications and features, the better – and companies are taking note. As of 2018, 72% of enterprises planned to implement DevOps methodologies within the next year, and the DevOps market will reach $9.4 billion by 2023. But as organizations put their DevOps visions into action, infrastructure teams are facing a new development‑centric reality, one in which they must work at the same pace as development teams to deliver the services and policies required across a complex web of data centers, cloud, and virtualized environments – all without getting in the way. The Infrastructure Bottlenecks that Developers Dread Many organizations feel the pain of balancing faster development with operational requirements like reliability, scalability, stability, and security. The rise of [ more… ]

Accelerate Cloud-Native Apps with Automation Since you’re reading this blog, no doubt you’re aware that automation is essential to delivering modern digital experiences. It enables agility at a pace that isn’t possible with human hands, reduces downtime and errors, and lets developers focus on the things that give them joy. 73% of organizations are automating network operations to boost efficiency, and perhaps nowhere is automation more prevalent than in public clouds. At NGINX, not only do we love automation, but we also know that it’s considered a must‑have by our customers and community. Our solutions can be incorporated seamlessly into DevOps workflows using APIs and we’ve made extensive development investments in official Ansible roles and collections. In this blog we explore four ways you can automate NGINX technologies in the public cloud. We use AWS as the sample cloud, but [ more… ]