“Service mesh” is a red‑hot topic. It seems that every major container‑related conference last year included a “service mesh” track, and industry influencers everywhere are talking about the revolutionary benefits of this technology. However, as of early 2019, service mesh technology is still immature. Istio, the leading implementation, is not yet ready for general enterprise…
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 ›The Future of Open Source at NGINX
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) NGINX Product Roadmap, Owen Garrett (video here) Introducing NGINX Controller, Chris Stetson and…
Continue reading ›NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes Load Balancing
Running and managing microservices applications in containers at scale across a cluster of machines is a challenging task. Kubernetes helps you meet the challenge by giving you a powerful solution for container orchestration. It includes several important features, such as fault tolerance, autoscaling, rolling updates, storage, service discovery, and load balancing. In this blog post…
Continue reading ›OpenShift Ecosystem: Implementing the NGINX Proxy Model on Red Hat OpenShift
We here at NGINX, Inc. are part of the launch of OpenShift Primed, a technology program announced today with the launch of the OpenShift Container Platform. The first result of this collaboration will be making the enterprise-ready features of NGINX Plus available with the Kubernetes Ingress controller and OpenShift Origin. We are also continuing to develop the NGINX Microservices…
Continue reading ›Deploying NGINX Plus & Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform, Part 2
This post is adapted from a webinar by Floyd Smith of NGINX, Inc. and Sandeep Dinesh and Sara Robinson of Google. It is the second of two parts and focuses on NGINX Plus as a load balancer for multiple services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The first part focuses on deploying NGINX Plus on GCP. You can view the complete webinar…
Continue reading ›Load Balancing Kubernetes Services with NGINX Plus
[ngx_snippet name='style-bolder-h4-h5'] Kubernetes is an open source system developed by Google for running and managing containerized microservices‑based applications in a cluster. People who use Kubernetes often need to make the services they create in Kubernetes accessible from outside their Kubernetes cluster. Although Kubernetes provides built‑in solutions for exposing services, described in Exposing Kubernetes Services with…
Continue reading ›nginx.conf 2015: See What You Missed
nginx.conf 2015 may be over, but your opportunities to enjoy great sessions from the event are not! Check out the links below to select full conference sessions, watch the keynotes, and get up to speed on the NGINX product releases we announced last week. Watch Full nginx.conf Sessions On Demand In advance of nginx.conf, we ran…
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