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

2nd Edition. — O’Reilly Media, Inc. — 2022. — 208 p. — ISBN13: 9781098126261.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 of 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 such as TCP and HTTP, these recipes provide proven solutions for security and software load balancing and for 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.Basics.
High-Performance Load Balancing.
Traffic Management.
Massively Scalable Content Caching.
Programmability and Automation.
Authentication.
Security Controls.
HTTP/2.
Sophisticated Media Streaming.
Cloud Deployments.
Containers/Microservices.
High-Availability Deployment Modes.
Advanced Activity Monitoring.
Debugging and Troubleshooting with Access Logs, Error Logs, and Request Tracing.
Performance Tuning.
Introduction to NGINX Instance Manager.
Introduction to NGINX Controller.
Practical Ops Tips and Conclusion.