NginX Load Balancer and Web Server
What you'll learn
- Layer 7 Load Balancing between services
- Layer 4 Load Balancing between services
- Setup NginX as a Web Server
- Block Undesired Requests and Re-route requests to different services
- Enable HTTPS with letsEncrypt
- Enable HTTP/2 with NginX
- Enable TLS 1.3 with NginX
Requirements
- Any computer (Windows, Mac or Linux)
Description
NginX is an open-source web server written in C and can also be used as a reverse proxy and a load balancer.
In this course, I want to go through the following topics in NginX
What is NginX?
NginX Use Cases
Layer 4 and Layer 7 Proxying in Nginx
Example
Install Nginx (mac)
Nginx as a Web Server
Static content
Regular expression in NginX
proxy_pass
Nginx as a Layer 7 Proxy
Proxy to 4 backend NodeJS services (docker)
IP_Hash load balancing
Split load to multiple backends (app1/app2)
Block certain requests (/admin)
NGINX as a Layer 4 Proxy
Create DNS record
Enable HTTPS on Nginx (lets encrypt)
Enable TLS 1.3 on NginX
Enable HTTP/2 on NginX
Who this course is for:
- Engineers who want to deploy Web Servers
- Engineers who want to understand how to enable TLS and HTTPS
- Engineers interested in Proxy technology, reverse proxy and load balancing
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Course content
HTTP, Proxies and Web Servers4 lectures • 2hr 1min
- What is HTTP?Preview45:34
- What is a Web Server?37:06
- Proxy vs Reverse ProxyPreview14:17
- Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Proxying24:23
Introduction to NginX4 lectures • 10min
Working with NginX10 lectures • 1hr 30min
NginX Timeouts2 lectures • 28min
Instructor
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My name is Hussein and I’m a software engineer. Ever since my uncle gave me my first programming book in 1998 (Learn programming with Visual Basic 2) I discovered that software is my passion. I started my blog, and YouTube channel as an outlet to talk about software.
I specialize in the field of geographic information systems (or GIS). I helped many organizations in different countries implement GIS technology and designed, developed apps to fit their use cases and streamline their workflows since 2005. I wrote five books on Esri ArcGIS technology and I've been an engineer at Esri building cool GIS technologies since 2015.
Between my Software Engineering YouTube channel and Podcast, I have made over 500 hundred pieces of content on different topics of software engineering ranging from proxies, security, networking, and programming. I also discuss recent software news and current events on software.
Using software to solve interesting problems is one of the fascinating things I really enjoy. Feel free to contact me on my social media channels to tell your software story, ask questions or share interesting problems. I would love to hear it!