DeJonghe Derek - NGINX Unit Cookbook

by Derek DeJonghe

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The NGINX Unit Cookbook aims to provide a reference for using NGINX Unit through practical real-world examples. Throughout this book, you will learn about NGINX Unit, its features, and where it fits in your system architecture. This guide will provide you with the knowledge to effectively use NGINX Unit and simplify your system architecture by using a single middleware server for a wide range of web application use cases.

This book will be most useful for system engineers, architects, and those in a DevOps role, whose position is focused on web application delivery, deployment, and security. A background in web application hosting and the HTTP protocol will help readers understand the concepts contained in this book.

will explain the what and why of NGINX Unit, in a traditional report form, before transitioning to the how, in a cookbook format, for the rest of the book. The main focus areas will be installation of NGINX Unit, its configuration API, serving applications and routing requests, security and application isolation, and integration with common web languages and ecosystems.

I personally believe in NGINX Unit and have begun using it in my own web system architectures because of its versatility and simple minimalistic configuration. NGINX Unit enables me to deploy web application environments for a wide variety of use cases and language ecosystems effectively with a common middleware server. My hope is that the information in this book will empower you to do the same.