Derek DeJonghe - NGINX Cookbook, 2nd Edition

by Derek DeJonghe

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Welcome to the 2022 edition of the NGINX Cookbook. OReilly has been publishing the NGINX Cookbook for seven years, and we continue to iterate and improve on the content. NGINX today is the worlds most popular web server, according to W3Techs, and runs nearly 50% of the top 1000 busiest sites. Since we released the first version of NGINX in 2002, the product has evolved to become a Swiss Army Knife in the best sense. We architected NGINX for flexibility and scale, which made it possible to extend our capabilities beyond web serving to load balancing, reverse proxy, and API gateway as well. We take it as a testament to the value of NGINX that many of the load-balancing services offered by major public clouds and CDNs are actually based on NGINX code.

NGINX has also continued to expand into new realms; our web application firewall now applies machine learning to adapt to new threats as they arise. NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes is natively integrated with NGINX and provides key capabilities for managing both east-west and north-south traffic, a critical requirement in the world of Kubernetes. None of this would matter if NGINX did not continue to deliver speed, resilience, and agilityall fundamental requirements of modern distributed applications.

The NGINX Cookbook is the go-to guide to NGINX from the people who know the code best. Whether you are running NGINX Open Source for a small project or NGINX Plus for a mission-critical enterprise deployment across multiple regions, and whether you are running locally or in the cloud, the Cookbook shows you how to get the most out of NGINX. It features dozens of easy-to-follow recipes covering how to install NGINX, configure it for almost any use case, secure and scale it, and troubleshoot common issues.

The 2022 edition updates many sections, covering new functionality in NGINX and adding entirely new sections and chapters focused on cloud native computing deployments and the new tools and deployment patterns for that paradigm shift. The world of technology and applications is changing fast, and NGINX is changing with it to continue contributing to your success.

The original vision of NGINX was highly scalable, reliable, fast, and secure web serving. Everything we do today is built on that original vision and designed to help our community deploy the apps they need, in any environment, at any scale, with confidence and trust. Please enjoy this latest edition and feel free to tell us what you think (in our Slack channel or online). We are listening.

Christopher Guzikowski

Product Marketing, NGINX, Inc.