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Lightweight and Open Source
NGINX Unit supports a RESTful JSON API, deploys configuration changes without service disruptions, and runs apps built with multiple languages and frameworks. Designed from scratch around the needs of your distributed applications, it lays the foundation for your service mesh.
Why Use NGINX Unit?
Configure your applications in real time – NGINX Unit is tailored to the demands of modern microservices. Make one change and apply to all.
- Watch the video at right to see the value of dynamic configuration in action
- Visit unit.nginx.org to download NGINX Unit
- Check out our GitHub repo for examples
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Avoid the requirements and headaches associated with multiple application servers. NGINX Unit supports a single configuration stack.
Dynamically adjust to your applications’ needs:
- Comprehensive RESTful API simplifies configuration
- JSON syntax provides visibility and transparency
- In‑memory updates reduce service disruptions
- Zero-downtime deployments facilitate seamless updates
Dynamically adjust to your applications’ needs:
- Comprehensive RESTful API simplifies configuration
- JSON syntax provides visibility and transparency
- In‑memory updates reduce service disruptions
- Zero-downtime deployments facilitate seamless updates
Technical Specifications
Supported App Languages
- Binary-compiled languages in general
- Go
- JavaScript (Node.js)
- Java
- Perl
- PHP
- Python
- Ruby
Visit NGINX Unit For Full Technical Specifications
NGINX Unit is a polyglot app server, a reverse proxy, and a static file server, available for Unix‑like systems. It was built by NGINX team members from scratch to be highly efficient and fully configurable at runtime.
NGINX Unit DocumentationLearn More about NGINX Unit
NGINX Unit: From Zero to Lift Off
NGINX developers demo how to build, deploy, and manage application using NGINX Unit.
Blog
Automating Installation of WordPress with NGINX Unit on Ubuntu
We walk through a bash script for setting up a WordPress deployment on Ubuntu that's managed by NGINX Unit and uses NGINX for web serving. The resulting WordPress deployment is scriptable,...
Blog
Building Application Stacks With NGINX Unit
We show how to build an application stack with NGINX Unit, enabling automated deployment of production environments with custom‑built language runtime versions, libraries, modules, and...
