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NGINX Plus Instances

NGINX is such a great solution for so many use cases that you might have dozens (or even hundreds!) of NGINX instances spread across your infrastructure and managed by different groups. Instance Manager operates within the control plane and represents the core functionality of NGINX Management Suite. You must have an Instance Manager license to use additional NGINX Management Suite modules.

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Why Use Instance Manager?

  • Inventory NGINX Instances
  • Secure Apps and APIs at Scale
  • Monitor Instances
  • Simplify NGINX Configuration

Track NGINX Instances and Ensure Security Compliance

With Instance Manager, you can:

  • Quickly discover all your instances in any environment from edge to Kubernetes cluster
  • Generate tables of discovered instances with detailed certificate information
  • Determine if instances are vulnerable to CVEs and push out fixes for active CVEs

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Visualize Attacks and WAP Performances

Using Instance Manager to improve security, you can:

  • Create, edit, and deploy policy updates across your entire WAF environment
  • Integrate WAF security into your CI/CD pipeline for easy DevSecOps
  • Control WAFs at scale using either the GUI or REST API
  • Gain insights to guide tuning of WAF policy using NGINX Management Suite Security Monitoring

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Boost Productivity with Enhanced Monitoring Capabilities

With Instance Manager, you can:

  • Access and store operational metrics for all your instances
  • View metrics natively within Instance Manager or export to Grafana
  • Track status of blue-green deployments from within your CI/CD pipeline

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Discover and Resolve Potential Issues

Instance Manager helps you:

  • Control access to NGINX configurations at the individual or team level using RBAC
  • Apply one configuration to multiple instances with “Instance Groups”
  • Troubleshoot by analyzing current and saved configurations for syntactic errors
  • Save and store NGINX configurations for future deployment

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Technical Specifications

Architecture

  • x86_64

Operating Systems

  • CentOS
  • Debian
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Cloud Platforms

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microsoft Azure

Runs in Kubernetes

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