First things first: it’s been quite a while since we shared news from the NGINX Unit team – these tumultuous times have affected everyone, and we’re no exception. This March, two founding members of the Unit team, Valentin Bartenev and Maxim Romanov, ... more
Since introducing the NGINX JavaScript module (njs) in 2015 (under its original name, nginScript) and making it generally available in 2017, we have steadily continued to add new features and refine our implementation across dozens of version updates. ... more
Last month at NGINX Sprint 3.0, I hosted a chat on open source ecosystems with three industry experts: Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon; Stephen Chin, VP of Developer Relations at JFrog; and Robert Sirchia, Sr. Technical Evangelist at SUSE. Given their brilliant ... more
Time flies when you’re having fun. So it’s hard to believe that NGINX is now 18 years old. Looking back, the community and company have accomplished a lot together. We recently hit a huge milestone – as of this writing 55.6% of all websites are powered ... more
Time flies when you’re having fun. So it’s hard to believe that NGINX is now 18 years old. Looking back, the community and company have accomplished a lot together. We recently hit a huge milestone – as of this writing 55.6% of all websites are powered ... more
We’re happy to announce the availability of NGINX Plus Release 27 (R27). Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one software web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, content cache, and API gateway. New and enhanced features in NGINX ... more
Grab your wetsuit, dive computer, and depth gauge, because we’re back with NGINX Sprint and we’re diving deep into the world of NGINX open source. NGINX Sprint is virtual again this year and taking place August 23–25, 2022. Register today to save your ... more
Editor – This post is an extract from our comprehensive eBook, Managing Kubernetes Traffic with F5 NGINX: A Practical Guide . Download it for free today. Many organizations setting up Kubernetes for the first time start with the NGINX Ingress controller ... more
When we help NGINX users who are having problems, we often see the same configuration mistakes we’ve seen over and over in other users’ configurations – sometimes even in configurations written by fellow NGINX engineers! In this blog we look at 10 of ... more
We’re happy to announce the availability of NGINX Plus Release 26 (R26). Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one software web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, content cache, and API gateway. New and enhanced features in NGINX ... more
Friday, December 10, 2021 is a date that will be remembered by many IT folks around the globe. It’s when a highly critical zero‑day vulnerability was found in the very popular logging library for Java applications, log4j. The name “Log4Shell” was quickly ... more
We’re happy to announce the availability of NGINX Plus Release 25 (R25). Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one software web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, content cache, and API gateway. Attention: NGINX App Protect Customers ... more
As we discussed in How to Improve Visibility in Kubernetes, one of the top challenges for app development and delivery teams is getting insight into app performance, security, and availability. These insights help teams troubleshoot problems quickly ... more
It’s been a while since our previous update, but by no means were we sitting on our hands. In today’s blog post, we discuss the most notable features of NGINX Unit released this autumn. If you stop reading this post after the first paragraph, here’s ... more
We’re happy to announce the availability of NGINX Plus Release 23 (R23). Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus is the only software load balancer, reverse proxy, and API gateway. New features in NGINX Plus R23 include: gRPC health checks – Actively ... more
Recently, we 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 ... more
In his famous speech at the University of Texas in 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven said that if you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. Sometimes small things can have a big impact – whether it’s making your bed in the morning or ... more
We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 21 (R21) is now available. Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, and API gateway. With more than 450 million web sites relying on NGINX, ... more
Chances are you relax by streaming your favorite television show, use a fitness tracker to see how that diet is going, order and pay for pizza on a mobile app or website, tap to pay for your cappuccino, and tell your smart speaker when to wake you up ... more
In the 1990 movie The Hunt for Red October , Sean Connery plays Marko Ramius, captain of the Soviet Union’s newest nuclear submarine, who intends to defect to the US and bring the sub with him. CIA analyst Jack Ryan, played by a young Alec Baldwin, intuits ... more
We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 20 (R20) is now available. NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, and API gateway. Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus includes exclusive enhanced features and ... more
There’s a lot of talk surrounding the Domain Name System (DNS) at the moment, with massive changes being proposed for the 36-year-old protocol. The Internet’s name service, which has its origins in ARPANET, has never had any backward compatible breakages ... more
One of the most recent developments in NGINX Unit’s feature set is the support for application isolation, introduced in version 1.11.0 and implemented via Linux namespaces. It was announced just a few weeks ago, and there’s a reason for that: the developer ... more
When F5’s acquisition of NGINX was finalized in May of this year, one of the first priorities for Engineering was to integrate the control‑plane development teams and adopt a common set of tools. In this post, I describe the changes we made to our code ... more
Summer’s gone, so it’s time to forfeit the halcyon tranquility and get some working attitude on. The NGINX Unit team has recently presented our first two‑digit version, NGINX Unit 1.10.0; let’s page through the recent developments and shed some light ... more
Day 1 at NGINX Conf 2019 in Seattle was packed with insights into how the application landscape is evolving, and how F5 and NGINX are coming together to create the industry’s most comprehensive offering for app delivery, from code to customer. On Day ... more
We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 19 (R19) is now available. NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, and API gateway. Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus includes exclusive enhanced features and ... more
NGINX Open Source is already the default Ingress resource for Kubernetes, but NGINX Plus provides additional enterprise‑grade capabilities, including JWT validation, session persistence, and a large set of metrics. In this blog we show how to use NGINX ... more
As personal computers became ubiquitous in the early 1990s, there was a growing appetite to consume applications. At the time, it took on average three years to develop an app from initial conception to deployment in production. This has changed dramatically ... more
Today we release NGINX 1.17.0 – the latest version of the NGINX open source project, which is now the most popular web server on the Internet. This release also signals the start of the NGINX 1.17 development branch, following the release of NGINX 1.16.0 ... more