DeJonghe D. NGINX Cookbook: Advanced Recipes for High Performance Load Balancing

O’Reilly Media, 2020. — 401 p. — (Early Release)NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of its capabilities as a load balancer and reverse proxy server for HTTP and other network protocols. This cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples to real-world problems in application delivery. The practical recipes will help you set up and use either the open-source or commercial offering to solve problems in various use cases.
For professionals who understand modern web architectures, such as n-tier or microservice designs, and common web protocols including TCP and HTTP, these recipes provide proven solutions for security, software load balancing, and monitoring and maintaining NGINX’s application delivery platform. You’ll also explore advanced features of both NGINX and NGINX Plus, the free and licensed versions of this server.
You’ll find recipes for:
High-performance load balancing with HTTP, TCP, and UDP
Securing access through encrypted traffic, secure links, HTTP authentication subrequests, and more
Deploying NGINX to Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure cloud-computing services
Setting up and configuring NGINX Controller
Installing and configuring the NGINX Plus App Protect module
Enabling WAF through Controller App SecurityBasics
High-Performance Load Balancing
Traffic Management
Massively Scalable Content Caching
Programmability and Automation
OpenID Connect SSO with NGINX Plus
Securing a Location with an Expire Date
Generating an Expiring Link
Sophisticated Media Streaming
Cloud Deployments
Containers/Microservices
High-Availability Deployment Modes
Advanced Activity Monitoring
Debugging and Troubleshooting with
Performance Tuning
Introduction to NGINX Controller
Practical Ops Tips and Conclusion