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. You'll find recipes for: High-performance load balancing with HTTP, TCP, and UDP Securing access through encrypted traffic, secure links, HTTP authentication subrequests, and more Deploying NGINX to Google, AWS, and Azure cloud Setting up and configuring NGINX Controller Installing and configuring the NGINX App Protect module Enabling WAF through Controller ADC NGINX Instance Manager, Service Mesh, and the njs module

A practical book on real-world NGINX deployments to get you up and running quickly. About This Book Be the first to immerse yourself in the NGINX 1.9x web server and explore the plethora of advanced features. Master the skills of load balancing TCP-based applications and implementing HTTP/2. A recipe-based approach book that provides you with up-to-date information on NGINX, allowing you to implement specific use cases immediately. Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at smaller-to-medium developers, who are just getting started with NGINX. It assumes they already understand the basics of how a web server works and how basic networking works. What You Will Learn Practical, real-world examples and recipes on how to use NGINX Common CMS deployments such as WordPress, Joomla and more NGINX configurations for frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Django and more Detailed SSL recipes, including HTTP/2 Real world rewrite examples Basic web and TCP load balancing configuration Bandwidth management and connection limiting Detailed NGINX deployment scenarios with Docker Performance tuning and monitoring of your NGINX deployments OpenResty deployment guides Advanced deployments with NGINX Plus features In Detail NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly. Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features. By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have.

Learn Chef Provisioning like a boss and discover how to deploy software and manage hosts, along with engaging recipes to automate your cloud and server infrastructure with Chef. About This Book Leverage the power of Chef to transform your infrastructure into code to deploy new features in minutes Get step-by-step instructions to configure, deploy, and scale your applications Master specific Chef techniques to run an entire fleet of machines without breaking a sweat. Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator, Linux administrator, a cloud developer, or someone who just wants to learn and apply Chef automation to your existing or new infrastructure, then this learning path will show you all you need to know. In order to get the most out of this learning path, some experience of programming or scripting languages would be useful. What You Will Learn Install Chef server on your own hosts Integrate Chef with cloud services Debug your cookbooks and Chef runs using the numerous inspection and logging facilities of Chef Extend Chef to meet your advanced needs by creating custom plugins for Knife and Ohai Create a perfect model system Use the best test-driven development methodologies In Detail Chef is a configuration management tool that turns IT infrastructure into code. Chef provides tools to manage systems at scale. This learning path takes you on a comprehensive tour of Chef's functionality, ranging from its core features to advanced development. You will be brought up to speed with what's new in Chef and how to set up your own Chef infrastructure for individuals, or small or large teams. You will learn to use the basic Chef command-line tools. We will also take you through the core concepts of managing users, applications, and your entire cloud infrastructure. You will learn the techniques of the pros by walking you through a host of step-by-step guides to solve real-world infrastructure automation challenges.You will learn to automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware to software, middleware, and all your containers. You will become familiar with the Chef'sProvisioning tool. By the end of this course, you will be confident in how to manage your infrastructure, scale using the cloud, and extend the built-in functionality of Chef itself.The books used in this Learning Path are: 1) Chef Essentials 2) Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook – Second Edition 3) Mastering Chef Provisioning Style and approach This fast-paced guide covers the many facets of Chef and will teach administrators to use Chef as a birds-eye lens for their entire system. This book takes you through a host of step-by-step guides to solve real-world infrastructure automation challenges and offers elegant, time-saving solutions for a perfectly described and automated network.

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. The practical recipes will 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. You'll find recipes for: High-performance load balancing with HTTP, TCP, and UDP Securing access through encrypted traffic, secure links, HTTP authentication subrequests, and more Deploying NGINX to Google, AWS, and Azure cloud computing services Setting up and configuring NGINX Controller Installing and configuring the NGINX App Protect module Enabling WAF through Controller ADC NGINX Instance Manager (new chapter) New recipes for NGINX Service Mesh, HTTP3 and QUIC, and the njs module

NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of its capabilities as a load balancer and reverse proxy server for HTTP and other network protocols. This cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples to real-world problems in application delivery. The practical recipes will 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 including TCP and HTTP, these recipes provide proven solutions for security, software load balancing, and 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. You'll find recipes for: High-performance load balancing with HTTP, TCP, and UDP Securing access through encrypted traffic, secure links, HTTP authentication subrequests, and more Deploying NGINX to Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure cloud computing services Setting up and configuring NGINX Controller Installing and configuring the NGINX Plus App Protect module Enabling WAF through Controller App Security.

Alongside its popular web server, NGINX provides a dynamic application server that supports configuration through a RESTful JSON API. The open source NGINX Unit server deploys configuration changes without service disruptions and runs apps built with multiple languages and frameworks. This updated cookbook shows developers, DevOps personnel, network admins, and cloud infrastructure pros how to quickly get started with NGINX Unit. Hands-on recipes demonstrate Unit's new approach and show you how to deploy and configure this server for different applications. You'll learn how to run applications written in different languages on the same server, how to use NGINX Unit as the foundation for your web application development environment, and how Unit's RESTful API simplifies configuration. Learn how Unit differs from other middleware application servers Install Unit using source code, Red Hat and Debian systems, or third-party repositories Configure Unit using application, router, and listener objects Start and stop the Unit server and the applications it runs Manage user permissions, Linux namespace isolation, and API security Run WordPress, Django, and other web applications with Unit Serve applications with an NGINX proxy or load balancer

In addition to its popular web server, NGINX now provides a dynamic application server that supports a RESTful JSON API. The open source NGINX Unit server deploys configuration changes without service disruptions and runs apps built with multiple languages and frameworks. Developers, DevOps personnel, network admins, and cloud infrastructure pros will learn how to quickly get started with this new server with this useful, updated cookbook. Hands-on recipes demonstrate NGINX Unit's new approach and describe how to deploy and configure the server for different applications. You'll learn how the comprehensive RESTful API simplifies configuration, how to run applications written in different languages on the same server, and how to use NGINX Unit as the foundation for your service mesh. This new edition includes updates throughout and new chapters on Proxying, Static Files and Upstreams/Load Balancing.

The "go to" book to find solutions for NGINXAbout This Book* Be the first to immerse yourself in the NGINX 1.9x web server and explore the plethora of advanced features.* Master the skills of load balancing TCP-based applications and implementing HTTP/2.* A practical and recipe-based approach book that enlightens you about this lightweight and versatile server.Who This Book Is ForThis book is aimed at smaller-to-medium developers, who are just getting started with NGINX. It assumes they already understand the basics of how a web server works and how basic networking works. From this book, they will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problem they're having.What you will learn* Practical, real-world examples and recipes on how to use NGINX* A constantly referenced book that will remain valid for many years* Details on how to solve very specific and sometimes complicated user scenarios with NGINX. Readers will think "Ah, so that's how you do it!" after reading a chapter /sub-chapter* Each scenario in the book is thoroughly tested and validated, especially when it comes to direct cut and paste code scenarios* Where possible, we make test code available so that the reader can instantly see the system in actionIn DetailThis book covers all the exciting features incorporated in 1.9.X, ranging from the long-awaited TCP load balancing feature, allowing users to load-balance TCP-based applications, to support for upstreams in shared memory, to the implementation of HTTP/2 along with various dynamic pluggable module interfaces. We include various other features such as back-end SSL certificate verification, IPv6, log aggregation over network, thread pools, support for offloading I/O requests, and much more. The book will also help you understand how to run through real-world scenarios using NGINX within a container.

NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of its capabilities as a load balancer and reverse proxy server for HTTP and other network protocols. This cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples to real-world problems in application delivery. The practical recipes will 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 including TCP and HTTP, these recipes provide proven solutions for security, software load balancing, and 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. You'll find recipes for: High-performance load balancing with HTTP, TCP, and UDP Securing access through encrypted traffic, secure links, HTTP authentication subrequests, and more Deploying NGINX to Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure cloud-computing services Setting up and configuring NGINX Controller Installing and configuring the NGINX Plus App Protect module Enabling WAF through Controller App Security.