NGINX, part of ‑F5, offers training so you can get the most out of your NGINX ecosystem. Courses are available across different experience and skill levels, from NGINX fundamentals to advanced load balancing, advanced caching, security, and more.
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NGINX UNIVERSITY AT LEARNF5
NGINX University at LearnF5 is your gateway to NGINX training, as well as the entire f5 training portfolio.
Course Offerings
If you’re new to NGINX, NGINX Core is the place to start. If you’re self‑taught or have some working experience with NGINX, NGINX Core will help you complete your understanding of NGINX. The rest of the NGINX courses can be taken in any order.
Getting Started with NGINX
This course explores both the NGINX Open Source and the NGINX Plus offerings. The course begins with an overview of NGINX Open Source Edition and how it’s architected. Next, the course presents the differences between NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus by highlighting some of the features of the “Plus” offering such as the Dashboard and the tiered levels of support. The course concludes by offering next steps including additional training courses, documentation, and other options for your learning journey.
Course cost per person (on-demand): FREE
NGINX Fundamentals
NGINX Fundamentals is an 16‑hour course that provides the foundation you need to administer, configure, and manage NGINX using best practices. Through lecture and hands on activities, you’ll implement NGINX as a web server, load balancer, and reverse proxy.
NGINX products:
- NGINX Open Source
- NGINX Plus
Solution areas:
- Web server configuration and operation
- Proxying and Routing Requests
- Encrypting Traffic and Access Restrictions
- Monitoring and Managing Systems
Course cost per person (on‑demand): $400
NGINX Load Balancing
NGINX Load Balancing is a 4‑hour course that begins with a general review of load balancing. You’ll learn about load balancer configuration, selecting algorithms, and weighting. The follow‑up activities include configuring an upstream, session persistence, and enabling extended status and live activity monitoring.
NGINX products:
- NGINX Open Source
- NGINX Plus
Solution area:
- Load balancing/application delivery controller (ADC)
Course cost per person:
- Instructor‑led: $550
- On‑demand: $400
NGINX Caching
NGINX Caching is a 4‑hour course that provides a comprehensive view of how caching works, shows how to manage your cache, and teaches techniques for tuning your cache. The course starts with an intro to HTTP caching concepts.
It then applies these concepts in the context of NGINX acting as a reverse proxy and load balancer.
NGINX products:
- NGINX Open Source
- NGINX Plus
Solution areas:
- Load balancing/application delivery controller (ADC)
- Reverse proxy
Course cost per person:
- Instructor‑led: $550
- On‑demand: $400
Securing Applications with NGINX Plus
Securing Applications with NGINX Plus is an 8‑hour course for individuals who want a deep understanding of NGINX and NGINX Plus’s security features. You’ll explore SSL/TLS, access controls, securing API traffic, and blocking malicious traffic.
NGINX products:
- NGINX App Protect
- NGINX Open Source
- NGINX Plus
Solution areas:
- API management
- Load balancing/application delivery controller (ADC)
- Security
Course cost per person (instructor‑led): $1,100
Mitigating Vulnerabilities with NGINX App Protect
Mitigating Vulnerabilities with NGINX App Protect is a 16-hour course that gives participants a functional understanding of how to deploy and operate NGINX App Protect WAF and DoS to protect their web applications from the most common web application vulnerabilities and Layer 7 denial of service attacks. You’ll create and test custom policies as well as the standard policies NginxDefaultPolicy.json and NginxStrictPolicy.json. The course features hands-on labs.
NGINX products:
- NGINX App Protect
- NGINX Plus
Solution area:
- Security
Course cost per person:
- Instructor‑led: $2,200
- On‑demand: $1,350