NGINX Cookbook
Advanced Recipes for High-Performance Load Balancing
by Derek DeJonghe
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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. 
Book Description
NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of itscapabilities as a load balancer and reverse proxy server for HTTP and other network protocols. This revised cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples of real-world problems in application delivery. Practical recipes 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.
This open access book is Complimented by Nginx. You can download NGINX Cookbook ebook for free in PDF format (12.7 MB).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Basics
Chapter 2
High-Performance Load Balancing
Chapter 3
Traffic Management
Chapter 4
Massively Scalable Content Caching
Chapter 5
Programmability and Automation
Chapter 6
Authentication
Chapter 7
Security Controls
Chapter 8
HTTP/2
Chapter 9
Sophisticated Media Streaming
Chapter 10
Cloud Deployments
Chapter 11
Containers/Microservices
Chapter 12
High-Availability Deployment Modes
Chapter 13
Advanced Activity Monitoring
Chapter 14
Debugging and Troubleshooting with Access Logs, Error Logs, and Request Tracing
Chapter 15
Performance Tuning
Chapter 16
Introduction to NGINX Instance Manager
Chapter 17
Introduction to NGINX Controller
Chapter 18
Practical Ops Tips and Conclusion
Book Details
Title
NGINX Cookbook
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Published
2022
Pages
208
Edition
2
Language
English
ISBN13 Digital
9781098126247
ISBN10 Digital
1098126246
PDF Size
12.7 MB
License
Compliments of Nginx
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