Validating OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens with NGINX and NGINX Plus

Image courtesy of John T. on unsplash.com There are many options for authenticating API calls, from X.509 client certificates to HTTP Basic authentication. In recent years, however, a de facto standard has emerged in the form of OAuth 2.0 access tokens ... more

Announcing New Cloud Marketplace and Module Solutions for NGINX and NGINX Plus

The companies that are successful in becoming digitally enabled and customer‑obsessed – and therefore prepared to compete as we enter the 2020s – are those best able to collaborate internally and externally. The dynamic combination of technology and ... more

Testing the Performance of the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for managing containerized applications, with many enterprises adopting it in their production environments. In this blog, we describe the kind of performance you can achieve with the NGINX Ingress Controller ... more

Over-the-Air Updates to IoT Devices with NGINX

The Internet of Things (IoT) is already all around us – from voice‑activated devices to lights, coffee machines, and fridges – and we interact with it everyday in ways we don’t always realize. One of the biggest challenges in scaling IoT devices is device ... more

Announcing NGINX Plus R18

We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 18 (R18) 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

Ask NGINX | March 2019

Last month, we launched a new blog series, Ask NGINX , where every month we share the expertise of our team by answering great questions we’ve received from both our customers and open source users. These questions range from how to use our products ... more

NGINX and F5: Our Continued Commitment to Open Source

Last week, we announced that F5 will be acquiring NGINX. The response has been overwhelmingly positive from customers, the community, partners, employees, and throughout the industry. It’s humbling and we thank everyone for their ongoing support of NGINX. ... more

NGINX Conf 2018: Audi Builds a Microservices Dashboard with NGINX Plus as API Gateway on AWS

In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Timo Stark, Web developer and Web Solution Architect at Audi, shares how the automobile company went from 0 to 60 on its journey to microservices. In less than a year, his team built the Audi Cockpit, a dashboard on ... more

Top Takeaways of 2018 from the NGINX Blog

2018 was a great year for NGINX, our community, and our partners, with some exciting developments across both our open source and commercial platforms. From news of new investment from Goldman Sachs to launching our global partner network, 2018 has been ... more

Announcing NGINX Plus R17

We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 17 (R17) is now available. NGINX Plus is the only all‑in‑one load balancer, content cache, web server, and API gateway. NGINX Plus is based on NGINX Open Source and includes exclusive enhanced features ... more

Virtual Patching with the NGINX JavaScript Module

Virtual patching refers to fixing a problem with application code by making a change to related infrastructure rather than the code itself. In the security realm, it’s common to use ModSecurity to virtually patch a vulnerability, for example. But virtual ... more

NGINX Unit Now Supports TLS and JavaScript Apps with Node.js

When our engineering team showed me the initial code for TLS support a few weeks ago, I blocked off a few hours to get through the configuration and set‑up steps. It turned out to be so easy, I finished in about half an hour. On September 20, 2018, we ... more

NGINX Conf 2018, Day 2: How NGINX Is Making Huge Strides Against the Backdrop of Rapid Digital Transformation

While Day 1 of NGINX Conf 2018 was more about the big picture, on Day 2 we drilled down with several talks that positioned NGINX products against the backdrop of the today’s rapidly changing technology landscape. We heard fascinating keynotes from NGINX ... more

NGINX Conf 2018, Day 1: Five Takeaways as Companies Journey To Microservices

NGINX Conf 2018 kicked off in Atlanta yesterday, with hundreds of developers, operators and architects in attendance to explore how the web, cloud, and microservices are intersecting. Thousands of people also tuned in to the livestream from around the ... more

Updating the NGINX Application Platform with New Clustering, API Management, and Service Mesh Capabilities

The world is going digital at breakneck speed. Technology is front and center in our day‑to‑day lives. From entertainment to banking to how we communicate with our friends, technology has changed how we interact with the world. Businesses of all sizes ... more

Securing Applications in Microsoft Azure App Service with NGINX Plus

The rise of cloud computing – and Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Container as a Service (CaaS) offerings in particular – is changing the way companies deploy and operate their business applications. One of the most important challenges when designing ... more

NGINX Unit: Updating Apps with 100% Uptime

Today we’re releasing the second in our series of videos about NGINX Unit: Live App Updates at 100% Uptime. To help you get the most out of the video, this post provides all the background and details you need to understand what’s happening at each step ... more

Consolidating Your API Gateway and Load Balancer with NGINX

Now that software load balancers are the standard in modern, DevOps‑driven organizations, what new challenges have we created for ourselves? How can we deal with the complexities of “proxy‑sprawl”? Can we consolidate without compromising performance, ... more

NGINX Conf 2018 in Atlanta Features A New “Deep Dive” Track for Expert Developers

For NGINX Conf 2018, we’ve decided to create a separate “Deep Dive” track for the most NGINX‑savvy and hardcore of our attendees. So while your boss attends the business‑value talks, you can get to work. Join us in Atlanta GA, October 8–11. What’s special ... more

Announcing NGINX Plus R16

We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 16 (R16) is now available. Today’s release is one of the most important in advancing NGINX’s technical vision. With R16, NGINX Plus now functions as a single, elastic ingress and egress tier for all ... more

Deploying NGINX Plus as an API Gateway, Part 3: Publishing gRPC Services

This is the third blog post in our series on deploying NGINX Plus as an API gateway. Part 1 provides detailed instructions for several use cases of NGINX Plus as the API gateway for RESTful, HTTP‑based APIs. Part 2 extends those use cases and looks at ... more

Principles of Modern Application Development

Software is becoming more and more capable, and more and more complex. Software, as Marc Andreessen famously said, is eating the world. As a result, approaches to application development and delivery have shifted significantly in the past few years. ... more

NGINX Unit 1.3 Available Now

On July 13th we released NGINX Unit 1.3, the latest version of our dynamic multilingual application and web server, with support for more configuration parameters for better fine-tuning your applications. This follows the release of Unit 1.2 on June ... more

Three Ways NGINX Scales Applications Running in Docker Containers

Today, enterprises are modernizing their applications to support ever‑growing digital business requirements. Containers are a key component of that transformation, and Docker is core to the container revolution. Containers are the foundation for bringing ... more

Deploying NGINX Plus as an API Gateway, Part 2: Protecting Backend Services

This is the second blog post in our series on deploying NGINX Plus as an API gateway. Part 1 provides detailed configuration instructions for several use cases. This blog post extends those use cases and looks at a range of safeguards that can be applied ... more

Batching API Requests with NGINX Plus and the NGINX JavaScript Module

The version of the NGINX JavaScript module (formerly called nginScript) released with NGINX Plus R15 can now issue subrequests, meaning that requests can be initiated in JavaScript code, allowing a whole new set of use cases to be addressed. One of these ... more

Announcing NGINX Unit 1.0

Today, April 12th, marks a significant milestone in the development of NGINX Unit, our dynamic web and application server. Approximately 6 months after its first public release, we’re now happy to state that NGINX Unit is production-ready. NGINX Unit ... more

Announcing NGINX Plus R15

We are pleased to announce that the fifteenth version of NGINX Plus, our flagship product, is now available. Since our initial release in 2013, NGINX Plus has grown tremendously, in both its feature set and its commercial appeal. There are now more than ... more

Updating the NGINX Application Platform

Today, our vision to simplify the journey to microservices takes a big step forward. We are announcing the upcoming availability of the next version of our flagship software, NGINX Plus R15, with exciting new features, and the upcoming launches of NGINX ... more

Save the Date! NGINX Conf 2018 in Atlanta, October 8-10

We at NGINX request the pleasure of your company at NGINX Conf 2018, the fourth annual NGINX conference. It will begin Monday, October 8 with a training day, followed by the conference on Tuesday, October 9th and Wednesday, October 10, all in Atlanta, ... more