We compare NGINX performance in bare-metal and virtualized (hypervisor) environments, finding a small but measurable performance cost for hypervisors. We also find that performance in Kubernetes environments is worse for network-bound but not CPU-bound operations.
Amir Rawdat
Job title : Technical Marketing Engineer
Company : F5
Amir Rawdat is a technical marketing engineer at NGINX, where he specializes in content creation of various technical topics. He has a strong background in computer networking, computer programming, troubleshooting, and content creation. Previously, Amir was a customers applications engineer at Nokia.
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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.
Deploying NGINX Ingress Controller on Amazon EKS: How We Tested
We recently updated the NGINX Ingress Controller solution brief with sizing guidelines for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). In this blog, we explain how we came up with the guidelines, including all the information you need to do similar testing of your own.
Easier Deployment and Upgrade of NGINX Service Mesh
NGINX Service Mesh Release 1.1.0 introduces three key enhancements that make it easier to deploy and manage our production-ready service mesh in Kubernetes: Helm support, air-gap installation, and in-place upgrades.
Enhanced TCP/UDP Load Balancing and WAF Configuration with NGINX Ingress Controller
NGINX Ingress Controller now offers enhanced TCP/UDP load balancing with support for snippets, health checks, and multiple TransportServer resources. Release 1.11.0 also introduces a WAF policy for easier configuration of NGINX App Protect, Istio compatibility, and more.
Easy and Robust Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect and NGINX Ingress Controller
NGINX Ingress Controller now supports single sign-on with OpenID Connect. Release 1.10.0 also introduces new configuration queue metrics, annotations on log entries, better validation of annotations and secrets, support for NGINX App Protect user-defined signatures, and more.
Update: Using Free Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS Certificates with NGINX
Learn how to use the Let’s Encrypt client to generate RSA certificates and automatically configure NGINX to use the newly issued certificates.
Strengthen Security and Traffic Visibility on Amazon EKS with NGINX – APCJ
Zipwhip leveraged NGINX Ingress Controller in its AWS container environments to achieve rapid scale, greater traffic visibility, enhanced performance, and significant cost reductions. Learn how you can too.
Strengthen Security and Traffic Visibility on Amazon EKS with NGINX – EMEA
Zipwhip leveraged NGINX Ingress Controller in its AWS container environments to achieve rapid scale, greater traffic visibility, enhanced performance, and significant cost reductions. Learn how you can too.
Strengthen Security and Traffic Visibility on Amazon EKS with NGINX
Zipwhip leveraged NGINX Ingress Controller in its AWS container environments to achieve rapid scale, greater traffic visibility, enhanced performance, and significant cost reductions. Learn how you can too.