Some of the loudest buzz in the IT industry during 2018 was around the concept of service mesh. Here at NGINX we began to experiment with implementing a service mesh using the proven capabilities of NGINX Plus to facilitate and secure interprocess communication among containerized applications. Innovation and commercialization of service mesh solutions has rapidly advanced since…
Continue reading ›Top Takeaways of 2018 from the NGINX Blog
2018 was a great year for NGINX, our community, and our partners, with some exciting developments across both our open source and commercial platforms. From news of new investment from Goldman Sachs to launching our global partner network, 2018 has been our most successful year yet, and we hope you’ve reaped some of the rewards…
Continue reading ›Updating the NGINX Application Platform with New Clustering, API Management, and Service Mesh Capabilities
[ngx_snippet name='style-bolder-h4-h5'] The world is going digital at breakneck speed. Technology is front and center in our day‑to‑day lives. From entertainment to banking to how we communicate with our friends, technology has changed how we interact with the world. Businesses of all sizes and in all industries are rolling out compelling digital capabilities to attract,…
Continue reading ›What Is a Service Mesh?
A service mesh is a configurable, low‑latency infrastructure layer designed to handle a high volume of network‑based interprocess communication among application infrastructure services using application programming interfaces (APIs). A service mesh ensures that communication among containerized and often ephemeral application infrastructure services is fast, reliable, and secure. The mesh provides critical capabilities including service discovery,…
Continue reading ›nginMesh: NGINX Proxy in an Istio Service Mesh
This post is adapted from a presentation at nginx.conf 2017 by A.J. Hunyady, Senior Director of Product Management at NGINX, Inc. You can view the complete presentation, Deploying NGINX Proxy in an Istio Service Mesh, on YouTube. Also see the press release announcing nginMesh, the nginMesh GitHub repo, and Ed Robinson's conference talk on NGINX open source projects.…
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