Introduction to NGINX

web development August 1, 2024

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.