Nginx 1.9 Cookbook

Key Features

• Be the first to immerse yourself in the NGINX 1.9x web server and explore the plethora of advanced features.
• Master the skills of load balancing TCP-based applications and implementing HTTP/2.
• A practical and recipe-based approach book that enlightens you about this lightweight and versatile server.

Book Description

This book covers all the exciting features incorporated in 1.9.X, ranging from the long-awaited TCP load balancing feature, allowing users to load-balance TCP-based applications, to support for upstreams in shared memory, to the implementation of HTTP/2 along with various dynamic pluggable module interfaces. We include various other features such as back-end SSL certificate verification, IPv6, log aggregation over network, thread pools, support for offloading I/O requests, and much more. The book will also help you understand how to run through real-world scenarios using NGINX within a container.

What you will learn

• Practical, real-world examples and recipes on how to use NGINX
• A constantly referenced book that will remain valid for many years
• Details on how to solve very specific and sometimes complicated user scenarios with NGINX. Readers will think "Ah, so that's how you do it!" after reading a chapter /sub-chapter
• Each scenario in the book is thoroughly tested and validated, especially when it comes to direct cut and paste code scenarios
• Where possible, we make test code available so that the reader can instantly see the system in action