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Owen Garrett
Job title : Sr. Director, Product Management
Company : F5
Owen is a senior member of the NGINX Product Management team, covering open source and commercial NGINX products. He holds a particular responsibility for microservices and Kubernetes‑centric solutions. He’s constantly amazed by the ingenuity of NGINX users and still learns of new ways to use NGINX with every discussion.
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Fundamentals of Microservices
Get an introduction to the technologies behind some of the most popular apps on the planet.
Get the Most Out of Kubernetes with NGINX – EMEA
Learn about the latest Kubernetes trends and how NGINX solves common challenges to securing applications in Kubernetes.
Get the Most Out of Kubernetes with NGINX
Learn about the latest Kubernetes trends and how NGINX solves common challenges to securing applications in Kubernetes.
Deploying Application Services in Kubernetes, Part 2
We provide guidance on where to deploy application services in a Kubernetes environment, using WAF as an example. Depending on your needs, it can make sense to deploy your WAF at the "front door" of the environment, on the Ingress Controller, per-service, or per-Pod.
Addressing a DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2020-15598) in ModSecurity
On 14 September 2020 we released an update to the NGINX Plus ModSecurity module (for NGINX Plus R20, R21, and R22) in response to CVE-2020-15598. We encourage NGINX Plus subscribers to upgrade to the patched module.
Deploying Application Services in Kubernetes, Part 1
We explain why duplicating application services paradoxically can improve overall efficiency: because NetOps and DevOps teams have different mandates, it makes sense for them to select and manage the tools that best suit their specific needs.
Choosing the Right Load Balancer on Amazon: AWS Application Load Balancer vs. NGINX Plus
We compare AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) with NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus as a Layer 7 reverse proxy and load balancer. ALB has more features than at its debut in 2016, but we conclude that NGINX and NGINX Plus still provide more functionality and much more predictable pricing.
Announcing NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes Release 1.6.0
Release 1.6.0 of the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes includes improvements to NGINX Ingress Resources, support for OpenTracing, and much more.
Addressing the PHP-FPM Vulnerability (CVE-2019-11043) with NGINX
We provide guidance on using NGINX to mitigate the recently discovered vulnerability in PHP-FPM (CVE-2019-11043). The vulnerability is triggered when the PATH_INFO variable passed to PHP-FPM with an invalid value, which can happen in a common NGINX configuration.