Today, enterprises are modernizing their applications to support ever‑growing digital business requirements. Containers are a key component of that transformation, and Docker is core to the container revolution. Containers are the foundation for bringing portability to legacy applications, as well as a lightweight package for modern, microservices‑based apps. And usage of NGINX and of Docker…
Continue reading ›More Fun with NGINX Plus Health Checks and Docker Containers
At nginx.conf 2017, I gave a presentation on how to use NGINX Plus health checks with Docker containers. You can access the presentation as a YouTube video or a blog post, which includes the Powerpoint slides and a transcription of my talk. In this post, I'll describe an improved version of the basic approach, then present working…
Continue reading ›7 Key Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2017
NGINX has a long history with AWS. NGINX is used in more than half of the web apps built in AWS, including many of the biggest. This, by itself, is a huge vote of confidence in NGINX. So the NGINX booth at AWS re:Invent 2017 was a fun place to be last week. As we…
Continue reading ›Fun with Health Checks using NGINX Plus and Docker
This post is adapted from a presentation at nginx.conf 2017 by Rick Nelson, Head of the Sales Engineering Team at NGINX, Inc. You can view the complete presentation on YouTube. Table of Contents Introduction 0:47 NGINX Plus Active Health Checks 1:37 Preventing Server Overload 2:27 Base Topology for Demo 3:08 Topology for the Three…
Continue reading ›5 Reasons to Switch from F5 BIG-IP to NGINX Plus
Last year we compared the price and performance of NGINX Plus to several models of F5 BIG‑IP application delivery controllers (ADCs). We determined that you can save over 80% in Year 1 by switching to NGINX Plus, while equaling or exceeding the performance of F5 appliances. Editor – For more information about replacing hardware ADCs with NGINX Plus, see these resources. Blog posts…
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 ›Docker Swarm Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus
At nginx.conf 2016 in Austin this September, I gave a presentation on using NGINX and NGINX Plus in a Docker Swarm cluster. In this post I discuss how to use NGINX and NGINX Plus for Docker Swarm load balancing in conjunction with the features introduced in Docker 1.12. All files I used during my demo at nginx.conf (and more)…
Continue reading ›Announcing a New Ebook, Docker for Java Developers
Docker containers may be the hottest thing in software development. Containers make software development easier by combining an app and its environment into a single unit. Managing app dependencies becomes far easier. In our recent survey of app developers, NGINX found that more than a third of developers are using containers in development and/or production –…
Continue reading ›Installing NGINX and NGINX Plus with Puppet
[Editor – The solution described in this blog relies on the NGINX Plus Status and Upstream Conf modules (enabled by the status and upstream_conf directives). Those modules are replaced and deprecated by the NGINX Plus API in NGINX Plus Release 13 (R13) and later, and will not be available after NGINX Plus R15. For the solution to continue working,…
Continue reading ›Get the Hands‑On Guide to CI/CD with Docker in this Free O’Reilly Ebook
It’s no secret that the use of Docker and container technologies is on the rise. We recently surveyed the broad community of NGINX and NGINX Plus users and found that a full two‑thirds of organizations are investigating or already using containers in some way. Whether you’re already running contained applications in production or are still thinking…
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