Agile development has become much more than just another buzzword. It’s how enterprises are building new services that compete with disruptors who are delivering great user experiences in finance, media delivery, retailing – basically, every industry – through modern applications. As a result, businesses are applying incredible pressure on developers and ops team to keep ahead of…
Continue reading ›Announcing a Unified Ansible Role for NGINX and NGINX Plus
NGINX, Inc. has been hard at work following the release of the original, separate Ansible roles for the open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus. We are now releasing a new, unified NGINX Ansible role. This new Ansible role replaces the previous separate Ansible roles, which are no longer being maintained or updated. We will continue to…
Continue reading ›Official Ansible Roles for NGINX and NGINX Plus Out Now
Editor – The separate Ansible roles for open source NGINX and NGINX Plus described in this post are deprecated by a unified Ansible role from NGINX, Inc., as announced in this blog post. The separate roles described here are no longer being maintained or updated. For information about other DevOps automation tools for NGINX and NGINX Plus, check out…
Continue reading ›NGINX Product Roadmap 2017
This blog post is one of six keynotes by NGINX team members from nginx.conf 2017. Together, these blog posts introduce the NGINX Application Platform, new products, and product and strategy updates. The blog posts are: Keynote: "Speeding Innovation", Gus Robertson (video here) This post: NGINX Product Roadmap, Owen Garrett (video here) Introducing NGINX Controller, Chris Stetson…
Continue reading ›StackState Monitoring for NGINX
In today’s world, we see a growing need to modernize traditional applications from a monolith structure into a more microservices-oriented architecture. Containerization technologies bring a lot of advantages, such as auto-scaling, speeding up the frequency of deployments, etc. However, at the same time, managing the complete IT stack is even more critical. With more than…
Continue reading ›Secure Practices for Microservices – Dev and Ops
Owen Garrett, Head of Product at NGINX, is interviewed in the TechTarget Microservices channel about best practices for secure application development and deployment with microservices. A few interesting quotes: “…all incoming input… it’s potentially attack traffic.” “...build the application so that it's very defensive in the way that it handles requests.” "For ops, good practices…
Continue reading ›Introducing CI/CD with NGINX and NGINX Plus
Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a modern approach to managing the entire life cycle of writing, updating, and delivering applications. The agile and lightweight design of NGINX and NGINX Plus makes them extremely useful tools in support of many parts of a CI/CD platform. With CI/CD, everything from bug fixes to major feature changes are delivered…
Continue reading ›Get Smart: Operational Intelligence for NGINX and NGINX Plus With Splunk Enterprise
Splunk® Enterprise is data collection and analysis software that makes it simple to act on the untapped value of the big data generated by your technology infrastructure, security systems, and business applications – giving you the insights to drive operational performance and business results. NGINX, Inc. and Splunk have teamed up to offer the Splunk Add‑On for NGINX…
Continue reading ›Get the Hands‑On Guide to CD with Java and Docker in this Free O’Reilly Report
For more than 21 years Java has been a workhorse in the IT industry. It has become the all‑purpose programming language used to create large monolithic enterprise applications. But as enterprises move towards microservices, which involves breaking down application logic into smaller components, does Java still have a place? Though it may seem like a strange…
Continue reading ›DevOps Automation with NGINX and NGINX Plus
This post is adapted from a webinar by Floyd Smith and Kunal Pariani. Also see the related blog post, 3 Ways to Automate with NGINX and NGINX Plus. Table of Contents Introduction 3:44 How Long Does it Take You to Deploy New Code? 5:17 Deploying New App Versions 5:46 Modifying Open Source NGINX Configuration 6:40 NGINX Plus HTTP‑Based…
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