Название: NGINX Cookbook: Advanced Recipes for High-performance Load Balancing, 3rd Edition
Автор: Derek DeJonghe
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2024
Страниц: 195
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of itscapabilities as a load balancer and reverse proxy server for HTTP and other network protocols. This revised cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples of real-world problems in application delivery. Practical recipes help you set up and use either the open source or commercial offering to solve problems in various use cases.

For professionals who understand modern web architectures, such as n-tier or microservice designs and common web protocols such as TCP and HTTP, these recipes provide proven solutions for security and software load balancing and for monitoring and maintaining NGINX's application delivery platform. You'll also explore advanced features of both NGINX and NGINX Plus, the free and licensed versions of this server.

The NGINX Cookbook aims to provide easy-to-follow examples of real-world problems in application delivery. Throughout this book, you will explore the many features of NGINX and how to use them. This guide is fairly comprehensive, and touches on most of the main capabilities of NGINX.

The book will begin by explaining the installation process of NGINX and NGINX Plus, as well as some basic getting-started steps for readers new to NGINX. From there, the sections will progress to load balancing in all forms, accompanied by chapters about traffic management, caching, and automation. Chapter 6, “Authentication”, covers a lot of ground, but it is important because NGINX is often the first point of entry for web traffic to your application, and the first line of application-layer defense against web attacks and vulnerabilities. There are a number of chapters that cover cutting-edge topics such as HTTP/3 (QUIC), media streaming, cloud, SAML Auth, and container environments—wrapping up with more traditional operational topics such as monitoring, debugging, performance, and operational tips.

You'll find recipes for:
• High-performance load balancing with HTTP, TCP, and UDP
• Securing access through encrypted traffic, secure links, HTTP authentication subrequests, and more
• Deploying NGINX to Google, AWS, and Azure cloud
• Setting up and configuring NGINX Controller
• Installing and configuring the NGINX App Protect module
• Enabling WAF through Controller ADC
• NGINX Instance Manager, Service Mesh, and the njs module