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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)

Least connected load balancing

While the default load balancing algorithm is round-robin, it doesn't take into consideration either the server load or the response times. With the least connected method, we distribute connections to the upstream server with the least number of active connections.

Getting ready

To test the load balancing, you'll need to be able to run multiple versions of your app, each on different ports.

How to do it...

The upstream block directive looks exactly the same as the round-robin configuration, except we now explicitly tell NGINX to...