What exactly do we mean when we talk about "modern apps"? We describe four key features that we believe an app must have to be modern -- scalability, portability, resiliency, and agility -- and six principles to guide development of your own modern apps.
Announcing NGINX Plus R25
NGINX Plus R25 introduces more sophisticated authentication use cases with JWT, JWS, and JWE; counts of individual HTTP status codes; dynamic certificate loading for mTLS with upstream servers; hardened security for HTTP request processing; and NGINX JavaScript enhancements.
A Guide to Choosing an Ingress Controller, Part 4: NGINX Ingress Controller Options
Learn which NGINX Ingress controller is best for you, based on authorship, development philosophy, production readiness, security, and support.
How to Visualize NGINX Plus with Prometheus and Grafana
The built-in live activity monitoring dashboard tracks NGINX Plus metrics in real time, and can get additional insight from visualizations of performance over time. In this demo and blog we show how to generate time-series graphs of NGINX Plus metrics using Prometheus and Grafana.
Implementing OpenID Connect Authentication for Kubernetes with Okta and NGINX Ingress Controller
The Ingress controller is an ideal location for centralized authentication and authorization in Kubernetes. We show how to implement single sign-on with NGINX Ingress Controller as the relaying party and Okta as the identity provider in the OIDC Authorization Code Flow.
Reducing Kubernetes Costs by 70% in the Cloud with NGINX, Opsani, and Prometheus
With Opsani you can optimize NGINX Ingress Controller performance in the cloud. Powered by machine learning, Opsani processes metrics collected by Prometheus to ensure that the right amount of resources is consumed for higher performance and lower cost.
A Guide to Choosing an Ingress Controller, Part 3: Open Source vs. Default vs. Commercial
As you evaluate Ingress controllers, you’ll notice they fall into three categories: open source, default, or commercial. Learn the pros and cons for each here.
Bringing F5 and NGINX WAF Policies into Controller App Security
With NGINX Controller App Security for version 3.20 of the Application Delivery Module, you can now import your custom F5 Advanced WAF and NGINX App Protect WAF policies and distribute them across all your managed deployments. We call this Bring Your Own NGINX App Protect WAF Policy.
A Guide to Choosing an Ingress Controller, Part 2: Risks and Future-Proofing
Learn about risks you might introduce by selecting the wrong Ingress controller, and key areas where you can future-proof your selection.
Building Smaller Container Images
Small is beautiful when it comes to containers in test and dev environments: they take less time to build, use less memory, and have a smaller attack surface. We explore tools and provides instructions for building images that are a small as possible.