NGINX Cookbook : Advanced Recipes for High-Performance Load Balancing

Derek DeJonghe

ISBN 10: 1098158431 / ISBN 13: 9781098158439

Published by O'reilly Media Mär 2024, 2024

About this Item

Neuware - NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of its capabilities 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 include 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. 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 Services NGINX Plus as a service provider in a SAML environment HTTP/3 (QUIC), OpenTelemetry, and the njs module. --from page [4] of cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NGINX Cookbook : Advanced Recipes for High-Performance Load Balancing
• Publisher: O'reilly Media Mär 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1098158431
• ISBN 13: 9781098158439
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 174H x 12D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 174 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 358 grams

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Synopsis

NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of its capabilities 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 include 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.

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 Services
• NGINX Plus as a service provider in a SAML environment
• HTTP/3 (QUIC), OpenTelemetry, and the njs module

About the Author

Derek DeJonghe, an Amazon Web Services Certified Professional, specializes in Linux/Unix-based systems and web applications. His background in web development, system administration, and networking makes him a valuable cloud resource. Derek focuses on infrastructure management, configuration management, and continuous integration. He also develops DevOps tools and maintains the systems, networks, and deployments of multiple multi-tenant SaaS offerings.