Book Image

Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using a reverse proxy


While Odoo itself can serve web pages, it is strongly recommended to have a reverse proxy in front of it. A reverse proxy acts as an intermediary managing the traffic between the clients sending requests and the Odoo servers responding to them. Using a reverse proxy has several benefits.

On the security side, it can do the following:

  • Handle (and enforce) HTTPS protocols to encrypt traffic
  • Hide the internal network characteristics
  • Act as an application firewall, limiting the URLs accepted for processing

Also, on the performance side, it can provide significant improvements:

  • Cache static content, thus reducing the load on the Odoo servers
  • Compress content to speed up loading time
  • Act as a load balancer, distributing load between several servers

Apache is a popular option to use as a reverse proxy. Nginx is a recent alternative with good technical arguments. Here, we will choose to use Nginx as a reverse proxy and show how it can be used to perform the security and performance...