Introduction to NGINX

Understand and Deploy Layer 4/Layer 7 Load Balancing, WebSockets, HTTPS, HTTP/2, TLS 1.3 with NGINX (With Docker)

Created by: Hussein Nasser
Software Engineer, Author

What Will I Learn?

• 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 letsEncrypt
• 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)

Target audience

• Engineers who want to deploy Web Servers
• Engineers who want to understand how to enable TLS and HTTPS
• Engineers interested in Proxy technology, reverse proxy and load balancing
• Engineers who want to use NGINX to scale HTTP and WebSockets applications