[ngx_snippet name='table-style-blog'] One of the most beneficial features of the cloud is the ability to automatically scale the number of computing instances. With AWS Auto Scaling, you can change the number of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, either manually or automatically, based on schedule or demand. Auto Scaling helps reduce cost by adjusting the number of…
Continue reading ›Migrating Load Balancer Configuration from F5 and Citrix to NGINX Plus with Our Guides
Migrating to the cloud seems to be top‑of‑mind for almost everyone these days. Even if you're not actively involved in a cloud migration or “cloudification” of existing infrastructure – either because you're not quite ready, you have legacy and monolithic applications that don’t lend themselves to a more distributed and agile architecture, or there are business…
Continue reading ›Enterprise-Grade Cloud Storage with NGINX Plus and Minio
This is a guest blog post by Nitish Tiwari, a software developer for Minio, a distributed object storage server specialized for cloud applications and the DevOps approach to app development and delivery. Nitish's interests include software‑based infrastructure, especially storage and distributed systems. In this post, Nitish explains how to use NGINX and NGINX Plus as a reverse…
Continue reading ›Load Balancing Node.js Application Servers with NGINX and NGINX Plus
NGINX has created a complete Deployment Guide for using NGINX and NGINX Plus to load balance HTTP and HTTPS traffic across pools of Node.js® application servers. Node.js is an open source, cross‑platform JavaScript runtime environment. It provides an agile‑savvy, module‑driven, scalable approach to the design, development, and deployment of applications. This guide to Node.js load balancing…
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 ›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 ›Deploying All-Active, Highly Available NGINX Plus Load Balancing on Google Compute Engine
As the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Compute Engine (GCE) have become increasingly popular, we've published several resources explaining how to use NGINX Plus as the load balancer in the Google cloud infrastructure: Announcing NGINX Plus on the Google Cloud Platform on our blog Installing NGINX Plus on the Google Cloud Platform in the NGINX Plus Admin…
Continue reading ›NGINX Plus Sizing Guide: How We Tested
[ngx_snippet name='table-style-blog'] Earlier this year we benchmarked the performance of NGINX Plus and created a sizing guide for deploying it on bare metal servers. NGINX and NGINX Plus are widely used for Layer 7 load balancing, also known as application load balancing. [Editor – We update the sizing guide periodically to reflect changes in both hardware costs and performance…
Continue reading ›5 Reasons to Switch to Software Load Balancing
This post is adapted from a webinar by Floyd Smith and Faisal Memon from NGINX, Inc. Our new ebook on the topic is available for download. Table of Contents 0:00 Introduction 1:38 Who Are You? 3:53 From Hardware to Software 6:33 The Leading Web Server for the Busiest Sites in the World 8:48 Where NGINX…
Continue reading ›Announcing the Free NGINX Cookbook Series
We’re excited to be releasing the first of our three‑part NGINX cookbook series for free download today, created in partnership with O’Reilly Media. We hope this series of ebooks will help new users to get up and running quickly and current users to get the most out of their deployments of NGINX and our commercially supported…
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