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Introducing NGINX and NGINX Plus Routers for OpenShift Red Hat OpenShift is a container platform built on top of Kubernetes, the leading container orchestration and management system. OpenShift is available both as an open source project, OpenShift Origin, and a commercially supported product, OpenShift Container Platform. OpenShift adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes and extends it with security and other integrated features. One of those features, called the Router, provides edge request routing and load balancing for applications deployed on OpenShift. We are happy to announce today that NGINX and NGINX Plus now fully integrate with the OpenShift platform, and both can be used as a Router. Editor’s note: Visit NGINX at the Red Hat summit in San Francisco on May 8-10. See the demo of NGINX/NGINX Plus Router in booth 443. What is the Router? The [ more… ]

Transitioning to the New NGINX Plus API for Configuration and Monitoring 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%; } One of the differentiating features of NGINX Plus is its use of shared memory to store additional metrics, runtime state, and configuration. This shared memory enables NGINX Plus to collect detailed extended status data, implement efficient health checks, and provide a dynamic configuration API. In NGINX Plus R12 and earlier, we provided two APIs to access this shared memory – one to read extended status data (the status API), and one [ more… ]

Installing WordPress with NGINX Unit WordPress is one of the most popular open source content management systems today, used by more than 30% of all websites to host online web applications. WordPress is written in PHP, and both PHP and WordPress can run on NGINX Unit, the new dynamic application server from NGINX, Inc. Formerly, deploying WordPress with NGINX required the use of a separate application server, such as Apache or PHP‑FPM. NGINX Unit is more flexible, supporting Go, Perl, Python, and Ruby along with PHP. With NGINX Unit, you set up and make changes to your application server dynamically – without service disruption or configuration reloads – using the RESTful JSON API. This makes hands‑on management easier, and also makes it much easier to automate some or all of your management tasks. In this blog post, we describe how to set up WordPress on a [ more… ]

Announcing NGINX Unit 1.0 Today, April 12th, marks a significant milestone in the development of NGINX Unit, our dynamic web and application server. Approximately 6 months after its first public release, we’re now happy to state that NGINX Unit is production-ready. NGINX Unit is our new open source initiative led by Igor Sysoev, creator of the original NGINX, which is now used by more than 409 million websites. “I set out to make an application server which will be remotely dynamically configured, and capable to switch dynamically from one language or application version to another.” explains Igor. “Dynamic configuration and switching, I saw as being certainly the main problem. People want to reconfigure servers without interrupting client processing.” NGINX Unit is dynamically configured using a REST API; there is no set configuration file. All configuration changes happen directly in memory. [ more… ]