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NGINX Cookbook

By : Tim Butler
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NGINX Cookbook

By: Tim Butler

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Lua microservices with OpenResty

One of the quickest, natural extensions of OpenResty is to create and run a microservice directly, rather than having to proxy it to another external service. For those not familiar with microservices, this is a methodology of breaking down a software platform into small, independent services rather than a single, monolithic system. Here's a basic diagram of how the services may look for a web application:

This means that each microservice can be independently upgraded, changed, and scaled as required; keeping it to one task means the code should remain easier to manage.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we're going to focus on just one microservice. In a real-world deployment, these...