NGINX

• NGINX Tutorial for Beginners
• Gloo Failover

table of contents

• NGINX
  • Introduction
  • Nginx Terms
  • serve static site
  • As Load Balancer

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Introduction

NGINX is open-source web server software used for reverse proxy, load balancing, caching and https SSL termination.

brew install nginx
cd /usr/local/etc/nginx
cat nginx.conf
nginx # starts nginx

nginx.conf - configures the reverse proxy

Nginx Terms

• context - blocks
• directives - key value pair

events { # context
    worker_connections 1024; # directive
}

serve static site

http {
    
    # types {
    #     text/html html;
    #     text/css css;
    # }
    include mime.types;

    server {
        listen 8080;
        root ./devops/nginx/mysite;
        location / {
            index index.html;
        }
        location /fruits {
            root ./devops/nginx/mysite;
        }
        location /carbs {
            alias ./devops/nginx/mysite;
        }
        location /vegetables {
            root ./devops/nginx/mysite;
            try_files /veggies.html /index.html =404;
        }
        location ~* /count/[0-9] {
            root ./devops/nginx/mysite;
            try_files /count.html /index.html =404;
        }
        # Redirect
        location /crops {
            return 307 /fruits;
        }
        # Rewrite
        rewrite ^/number/(\w+)$ /count/$1 break;
    }
}

events {

}

As Load Balancer

http {
    upstream backendserver {
        server 127.0.0.1:1111;
        server 127.0.0.1:1112;
        server 127.0.0.1:1113;
        server 127.0.0.1:1114;
    }
}
server {
    listen 8080;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://backendserver/;
    }
}