Introduction to NGINX

Understand and Deploy Layer 4/Layer 7 Load Balancing, WebSockets, HTTPS, HTTP/2, TLS 1.3 with NGINX

Introduction to NGINX – Courses Bag

Understand and Deploy Layer 4/Layer 7 Load Balancing, WebSockets, HTTPS, HTTP/2, TLS 1.3 with NGINX (With Docker)

What you’ll learn?

Introduction to NGINX – Courses Bag

Layer 7 Load Balancing between services

Layer 4 Load Balancing between services

Setup NGINX as a Web Server

TLS Passthrough vs TLS Termination

Block Undesired Requests and Re-route requests to different services

Enable HTTPS with Llet’s encrypt

Enable HTTP/2 with NGINX

Enable TLS 1.3 with NGINX

NGINX Timeouts

Scaling WebSockets with NGINX

Load Balancing WebSockets with NGINX

Requirements

Basic understanding of networking and coding

Any computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux)

Description

NGINX is an open-source web server written in C and can be used as a reverse proxy and a load balancer. This class Is an introduction to NGINX; by the end of this class, you will be able to understand the fundamentals of NGINX and spin up your instance and even secure it with a legitimate certificate.

Here are the topics that I will discuss:

What is NGINX?

NGINX Use Cases

Layer 4 and Layer 7 Proxying in Nginx

NGINX Timoouts

A small blurb about NGINX

NGINX is one of a handful of servers written to address the C10K problem. Unlike traditional servers, NGINX doesn’t rely on threads to handle requests. Instead, it uses a much more scalable event-driven (asynchronous) architecture. This architecture uses small but, more importantly, predictable amounts of memory under load. Even if you don’t expect to handle thousands of simultaneous requests, you can still benefit from NGINX’s high performance and small memory footprint. NGINX scales in all directions: from the smallest VPS to large clusters of servers.

Who this course is for?

Engineers who want to deploy Web Servers

Engineers who want to understand how to enable TLS and HTTPS

Engineers interested in Proxy technology, reverse proxy, and load balancing

Engineers who want to use NGINX to scale HTTP and WebSockets applications