Tag: Nginx
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Comparing the best web servers: Caddy, Apache, and Nginx
Posted on October 23, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A web server is a piece of software that accepts a network request from a user agent, typically a web browser, and returns either the appropriate response for the request or an error message. Two dominant solutions for HTTP servers today are Apache and Nginx. However, a new player in the space, Caddy Web Server, is gaining traction for its ease of use. By Ayooluwa Isaiah.
Tags servers devops microservices app-development apache nginx
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How to create a self-signed SSL certificate for Nginx in Ubuntu 20.04
Posted on September 24, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
TLS, or transport layer security, and its predecessor SSL, which stands for secure sockets layer, are web protocols used to protect and encrypt traffic over a computer network. By Brian Boucheron and Jeanelle Horcasitas.
Tags nginx servers infosec linux ssl app-development
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Fortifying APIs with advanced security
Posted on August 25, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In F5's The State of Application Strategy in 2021 report, 58% of respondents said they are building a layer of APIs to modernize applications. Increasingly, though, breaches are taking the form of attacks on APIs. By Karthik Krishnaswamy.
Tags nginx apis web-development app-development infosec
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Deploy Fedora CoreOS servers with Terraform
Posted on December 29, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Fedora CoreOS is a lightweight, secure operating system optimized for running containerized workloads. A YAML document is all you need to describe the workload you'd like to run on a Fedora CoreOS server. By Nathan Smith @fedoramagazine.
Tags devops nginx microservices servers software
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Here's how to use Istio with other Nginx ingress proxies
Posted on August 12, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
It's been a common problem that we've been asked to address, and something that pops up frequently. Can I use Istio with other ingress proxies? In a word? Yes. Written by Tetrate.
Tags kubernetes containers devops performance nginx
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How to scale and secure Django application with Docker, Nginx, and Let's Encrypt
Posted on August 7, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In cloud-based environments, there are multiple ways to scale and secure a Django application. By scaling horizontally, and running several copies of your app, you can build a more fault-tolerant and highly-available system, while also increasing its throughput so that requests can be processed simultaneously. By Hanif Jetha.
Tags python web-development app-development infosec nginx ssl servers
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Getting started with the Ansible collection for NGINX controller
Posted on May 28, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Recently, NGINX announced the release of the Ansible collection for NGINX Controller. The collection contains a set of Ansible Roles that make it easy to incorporate NGINX Controller into your workflows. You can automate routine tasks such as generating ephemeral API tokens, managing certificate lifecycles, and configuring Controller objects (Gateways, Applications, and Components). By Brian Ehlert.
Tags nginx ansible programming devops
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NGINX structural enhancements for HTTP/2 performance
Posted on May 27, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
The blog post from pen of Nick Jones published on cloudflare.com. It is about experience of his team which deals with features related to: TCP, QUIC, TLS and Secure Certificate management, HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. They were responsible for implementing the Enhanced HTTP/2 Prioritization product.
Tags nginx performance web-development
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Kubernetes ingress controller setup using KOP and Nginx-Ingress
Posted on January 26, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
A tutorial by Lokesh Jawane explaining how to set up Kubernetes ingress controller using kops (Kubernetes Operations) & Nginx-Ingress. Kops automates the provisioning of Kubernetes clusters in AWS and GCE. Authors like to think of kops as kubectl for clusters.
Tags web-development kubernetes apis nginx containers
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How to make WordPress page cache plugins fly with NGINX
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ashley Rich posted an article about improving WordPress performance uisng NGINX caching. There are a ton of WordPress page caching plugins available, but limiting yourself to cache plugins alone means leaving significant performance improvements on the table.
Tags nginx web-development php programming
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Load balancing with HAProxy, Nginx and Keepalived in Linux
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tutorial by Rishi Raj Gautam on linuxhandbook.com focusing on load balancers. Having a proper set up of load balancer allows your web server to handle high traffic smoothly instead of crashing down. In this tutorial, he explains how to setup a load balancer with high availability.
Tags nginx web-development cloud software-architecture
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NGINX Unit supports TLS and JavaScript apps with Node.js
Posted on November 3, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Nick Shadrin of NGINX, Inc. wrote this article about TLS and Nodejs apps support in NGINX Unit. NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API.
Tags nginx programming iot devops miscellaneous nodejs javascript infosec