NGINX has released version 1.3.0 of the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes. This release features Prometheus support, better Helm charts, mergeable Ingress resources, easier custom template management, health checks, and status reporting. Come to Github and get it.

NGINX Conf 2018 has two days of demos and presentations on NGINX Plus, NGINX Controller, NGINX Unit, the NGINX Kubernetes Ingress controller, and more. You can also see the big picture, how it all works together as part of the NGINX Application Platform. Register now for Early Bird savings.

The $ssl_preread_protocol variable introduced in NGINX 1.15.2 allows you to distinguish between SSL/TLS and other protocols when forwarding traffic using a TCP proxy. This is useful if you want to avoid firewall restrictions by running (for example) SSL/TLS and SSH services on the same port.

The NGINX Web Application Firewall (WAF) is now certified in the Google Cloud Security Partner Ecosystem, protecting applications hosted on the Google Cloud Platform from Layer 7 attacks like SQLi and RCE.

NGINX Unit 1.3, available now, adds configuration parameters for various timeouts, configurable request body size, Ansible integration, and more. As in previous releases, all parameters can be defined dynamically, with no disruption to running services or loss of connectivity.

NGINX Controller R1, a new management tool for NGINX Plus instances, was released June 26th, 2018. It offers simplified configuration management; monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting; tagging; a configuration analyzer; instance inventory; and multi-cloud support.

NGINX Controller launches today. With an intuitive interface, Controller helps you configure, deploy, and monitor instances, set up alerts, create dashboards, and troubleshoot. With NGINX Controller, you can reduce costs and improve performance, reliability, and availability for NGINX Plus.

NGINX has announced its $43M Series C funding round, led by Goldman Sachs. David Campbell, MD of the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, joins the NGINX Board of Directors. CEO Gus Robertson cites technology, culture, and customers as crucial to the success of NGINX to date.

NGINX Unit 1.2, available now, adds environment variables across application languages, versions, and sessions; php.ini configuration; and command-line configuration for Go executables. Parameters can still be defined dynamically, with no disruption to running services or loss of connectivity.

A newly discovered security threat exploits a configuration that allows remote users to specify the server for a request in the HTTP Host header, and thus access potentially sensitive information. In this post we explain how to prevent this "cloud metadata" attack.