Nginx?

Hey,

This is my first post, looking forward to learn more!

Today I learnt about Nginx,

What is Nginx and its functionalities

** Nginx as web server**

• Primary function is to serve web pages to client browsers.

Nginx as Load Balancer

• Proxy server: Intermediary server that forwards client request to the other server
• Load Balancing algorithm: Round robin (least busy server get the request)

Nginx as Caching

• Core feature of Nginx Proxy
• It gets the response and stores it instead of hitting server multiple times.

** Security**

• Nginx Proxy acts as shield, reduces attack areas
• one entrypoint for attackers to attack before they attack other web servers

** Enforces HTTPS, Encrypted communication**

• Accepts only encrypted traffic
• Nginx proxy will decrypt the request and transfer it to web servers

Compression and segmentation

• Compresses the file after getting it from web server.
• Sends the data in chunks to the client saving the bandwidth

Configuring Nginx

• We can maintain a Nginx.config file to maintain these configurations

** Nginx as Kubernetes Ingress Controller**

• Ingress Controller- Acts as a load balancer
• manages the ingress(incoming) traffic in K8s.
• It handles the routing to appropriate services based on the ingress rule defined.