This pre-recorded 101-level lab and demo takes you from a “blank” LINUX system to a full-featured NGINX application delivery configuration for serving web content and load balancing.

1. Install and Configure
NGINX Open Source
Robert Haynes - NGINX

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1. Housekeeping – (Q&A, resources, window sizing, lab access)
2. NGINX Overview
3. Steps to install NGINX
4. What can you do with NGINX?
5. Configuring NGINX
6. Quick Lab Demo
7. Over to you! - Hands on lab
Welcome!

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>70%
10,000 busiest
websites
440M+
websites and apps
OPEN SOURCE FOOTPRINT
NGINX powers the Internet . . . and most enterprises!
PROVEN
= 1 Million

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NGINX Open Source
Fast, Flexible, Portable
Webserver
High performance web server
Load Balancer
Lightweight but powerful
Reverse Proxy
For HTTP and other protocols
Kubernetes Ingress
Traffic management for k8s apps

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NGINX Plus
Enterprise-Class Data Plane
NGINX Open Source
Fast, Flexible, Portable

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NGINX Installation Steps
Install pre-requisite packages
Add NGINX Signing key
Add NGINX repository
Install NGINX
Start NGINX

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NGINX Installation Steps
Add NGINX repository
Default installs will install from the distribution
provider’s repository
Configure the package management system to
pull NGINX from the NGINX official repository:
• More up to date
• Less likely to have known CVE’s
• Get the latest features and optimizations
Why this step?

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user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;
events {
worker_connections 768;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
## lots of default config goes here
## Delete for readability
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
NGINX Configuration Files (default)
server {
listen 80 http;
location / {
proxy_pass http://192.168.49.2;
}
server {
listen 8080 http;
root /www/data;
location / {
root /www/mysite/data;
}
/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
/etc/nginx/conf.d/foo.conf
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

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What Can you do with NGINX? – A Webserver
server{…}
location / {…}
/var/foo/html
/opt/www/bar

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What Can you do with NGINX? – A Load Balancer
server{…} location / {…}
/var/foo/html
/opt/www/bar
Server A
Server b
server{…}
server{…}

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Lab Demo

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Over to You!