Announcing NGINX Plus R15

2018-04-10 KENNETH 0

Announcing NGINX Plus R15 We are pleased to announce that the fifteenth version of NGINX Plus, our flagship product, is now available. Since our initial release in 2013, NGINX Plus has grown tremendously, in both its feature set and its commercial appeal. There are now more than 1,500 NGINX Plus customers and 409 million users of NGINX Open Source. Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, and API gateway. NGINX Plus includes exclusive enhanced features designed to reduce complexity in architecting modern applications, along with award-winning support. NGINX Plus R15 introduces new gRPC support, HTTP/2 server push, improved clustering support, enhanced API gateway functionality, and more: Native gRPC support — gRPC is the new remote procedure call (RPC) standard developed by Google. It’s a lightweight and efficient way for clients [ more… ]

Updating the NGINX Application Platform

2018-04-03 KENNETH 0

Updating the NGINX Application Platform Today, our vision to simplify the journey to microservices takes a big step forward. We are announcing the upcoming availability of the next version of our flagship software, NGINX Plus R15, with exciting new features, and the upcoming launches of NGINX Unit 1.0 and NGINX Controller R1. Combined, these launches advance the NGINX Application Platform, a product suite that includes a load balancer, content cache, API gateway, WAF, and application server – all with centralized monitoring and management for monolithic apps, for microservices, and for transitional apps. The NGINX Application Platform is our vision for building microservices The NGINX Application Platform has already gained tremendous traction. More than 11 million new domains install NGINX Open Source each month – four instances every second. Three million instances of NGINX Open Source are running in production microservices environments. One million [ more… ]

What is a Service Mesh?

2018-04-03 KENNETH 0

What is a Service Mesh? A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for a microservices application. It makes communication among service instances flexible, reliable, and fast. The mesh provides service discovery, load balancing, encryption, authentication and authorization, support for the circuit breaker pattern, and other capabilities. The service mesh is usually implemented by providing a proxy instance, called a sidecar, for each service instance. Sidecars handle communications within the app. Istio, backed by Google, IBM, and Lyft, is currently the best‑known service mesh architecture. Kubernetes, which was originally designed by Google, is currently the only container orchestration framework supported by Istio. Service mesh comes with its own terminology for component services and functions: Container orchestration framework. As more and more containers are added to an application’s infrastructure, a separate tool for monitoring and managing the set of containers – a [ more… ]

Introducing the LEMUR Stack and an Official NGINX Mascot

2018-04-01 KENNETH 0

Introducing the LEMUR Stack and an Official NGINX Mascot Beginning in the 1990s, the LAMP stack established itself as the best-known and most-trusted method of deploying web applications. (LAMP is an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.) The model for developing and delivering modern web applications is more lightweight and streamlined. NGINX has become the web server of choice at the majority of popular websites due to its simplicity, high performance, and scalability. This has led to the widespread use of the LEMP stack, with NGINX (Engine‑X) replacing Apache in the second position. The LEMUR Stack Now, other software in the typical application stack is changing as well. Today, we introduce a new, even more modern application stack: LEMUR, for Linux, NGINX [Engine‑x], MariaDB, Unit, and Redis. This software bundle enables you to build applications that are more universal, [ more… ]

Using NGINX as an Ingress Controller for IBM Cloud Private

2018-03-22 KENNETH 0

Using NGINX as an Ingress Controller for IBM Cloud Private IBM Cloud Private was launched on March 20th at IBM Think 2018. Today’s enterprises, from global retailers to banks and airlines, have a mandate to modernize their traditional applications and infrastructure. They’re looking for new platforms and tools, development approaches, and IT providers to help them achieve the agility that web‑scale companies such as Google, Facebook, and Netflix have always provided. IBM Cloud Private (ICP) is a platform for developing modern applications based on microservices architectures behind the enterprise’s firewall, and fits the enterprise’s need for compliance, security, support, and services. ICP is an integrated environment for managing containers which includes Kubernetes as the container orchestrator, a private image repository, a management console, and monitoring frameworks. Because the platform is built around Kubernetes, you can leverage the NGINX Plus Ingress controller, which [ more… ]