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Announcing NGINX Ingress Controller Release 1.9.0

2020-10-21 KENNETH 0

Announcing NGINX Ingress Controller Release 1.9.0 We are happy to announce release 1.9.0 of the NGINX Ingress Controller. This release builds upon the development of our supported solution for Ingress load balancing on Kubernetes platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), IBM Cloud Private, Diamanti, and others. With release 1.9.0, we continue our commitment to providing a flexible, powerful and easy-to-use Ingress Controller, which can be configured with both Kubernetes Ingress Resources and NGINX Ingress Resources: Kubernetes Ingress resources provide maximum compatibility across Ingress Controller implementations, and can be extended using annotations and custom templates to generate sophisticated configuration. NGINX Ingress resources provide an NGINX‑specific configuration schema, which is richer and safer than customizing the generic Kubernetes Ingress resources. In release 1.8.0 and later, NGINX Ingress resources can [ more… ]

What Customers Tell Us They Need for Modern API Management

2020-10-20 KENNETH 0

What Customers Tell Us They Need for Modern API Management As a Sales lead for NGINX at F5, I often interact with customers that are using more than one API management framework. One customer I spoke with has five at last count! Why is this? There can be many reasons, but one situation we come across again and again is that as customers are transforming their applications from monolithic architectures to more microservices‑based architectures, they’re finding that their traditional API management framework no longer satisfies all their requirements. Before we examine the ways these traditional frameworks are no longer adequate, let’s take a look back at how we got to where we are today… The Evolution of Software Integration Architecture During the early 2000s we saw a growing requirement for an integration layer able to connect various front‑end services to [ more… ]

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Hello, Network Automation World

2020-10-17 KENNETH 0

Hello, Network Automation World Network engineers are facing the daunting task of automating the network while business leaders are trying to understand the costs, risks, and benefits of allocating resources and the budget to do so. The industry has been quick to promote the idea that network engineers need to automate the network. Putting aside the topic of buying commercial products, network teams are questioning where to focus their training and development efforts and how to get started. The answer is not to start with automating the network. Instead, the focus is on small tasks that are currently causing operational friction between teams. The first step for network engineers is to identify the tools used by stakeholders on the various teams and become competent with systems that have APIs designed for automation. Perhaps your organization shares information using spreadsheets that [ more… ]

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Network Engineering, APIs, and You

2020-10-14 KENNETH 0

Network Engineering, APIs, and You If you’re like me and have spent the last 20+ years building and supporting enterprise networks, then what I’m about to say isn’t a surprise. The tasks assigned to us in our role as network engineer can make it hard to stay afloat. There are projects and team meetings to attend, global networks to support, and routers and switches to configure. Not to mention the “vendor‑neutral” environments with all of their nuances and CLIs. It’s a full‑time job and depending on the stability of your infrastructure, it can certainly spill over into long nights and weekends. Now for the kicker. We also have to keep abreast of technology trends that relate to our network and career goals. Enter the application programming interface (API), which is supposed to make your job easier through automation and rapid presentation [ more… ]

Introducing NGINX Service Mesh

2020-10-13 KENNETH 0

Introducing NGINX Service Mesh We are pleased to introduce a development release of NGINX Service Mesh (NSM), a fully integrated lightweight service mesh that leverages a data plane powered by NGINX Plus to manage container traffic in Kubernetes environments. NSM is available for free download. We hope you will try it out in your development and test environments, and look forward to your feedback on GitHub. Adopting microservices methodologies comes with challenges as deployments scale and become more complex. Communication between the services is intricate, debugging problems can be harder, and more services imply more resources to manage. NSM addresses these challenges by enabling you to centrally provision: Security – Security is more critical now than ever. Data breaches can cost organizations millions of dollars every year in lost revenue and reputation. NSM ensures all communication is mTLS‑encrypted so that there is no [ more… ]