From NetOps to DevOps, modern app teams need a self‑service, API‑driven platform that integrates easily into CI/CD workflows to accelerate app deployment and makes app lifecycle management easier – whether your app has a hybrid or microservices architecture. Built to manage NGINX Plus instances, NGINX Controller is cloud‑native, secure, and high‑performance. During this webinar, we demonstrate how NGINX Controller can streamline the management of your NGINX Application Services.

1. NGINX Controller
KOEN VANDERPOORTEN
SOLUTION ENGINEER F5

2. Current Situation

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CUSTOMER
EXPERIENCE
BUSINESS
AGILITY
DIGITAL ROI
Enterprises are undergoing intense
digital transformation to drive business growth

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SUCCESS IS A FUNCTION OF VOLUME, SPEED, AND COST
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How efficiently can you deliver new products and services
to win, grow, and retain your customers?
Speed to Market
Volume
of
Successful
Deployments
/
Innovation
1000s
> Year Months Weeks Days Minutes
100s
10s
Your Company
Your Competitor
Amazon
“every 11.7 seconds, on average” with reduction in
both number and duration of outages
Relative Cost: Bubble Size
(Low-small, Medium, High-large)
Illustrative
Netflix
“thousands of times per day”
Nordstrom
“monthly” with fewer bugs
Facebook
“twice weekly”
Etsy
“more than 50 deployments a day with fewer disruptions”
Fidelity
“one to two hours” resulting in “easier to display regulatory compliance”

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“Facebook's accelerated development lifecycle continues to reshape consumers'
expectations of software. Its recently announced bi-weekly app updates
effectively served notice that constant, rapid refreshes for mobile apps are the
new normal, and any company that can't keep up risks getting left behind.”
─TechBeacon
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What’s stopping you from moving up and to the right?
Infrastructure Lock-In
Limits application portability across clouds
Security & Network Bottlenecks
Prevents agility and collaboration among roles
Tool Sprawl
Leads to complexity and higher costs
App Architecture Changes
As Devs and DevOps Apps move from virtualized
to container and microservices, can’t keep up
Poor/Lost App Visibility
Limited tools exist to manage governance across clouds
Line of Business Responsibility
As infrastructure services and ops decision-making
decentralized, lines of business have assumed
end-to-end ownership

7. NGINX Controller

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• Meet NGINX Controller 3.0+: The First App-Centric,
Multi-Cloud Application Platform for Modern App Teams

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• NGINX Controller 3.0+ helps empower enterprises to deliver
the same high-performance, connected experiences as digital innovators.
Respond with
Intelligent Insights To
Remediate Issues
and Maintain Uptime
Continuous Security
Aligned to Speed of
Modern Apps
Simplifies Code to
Customer Through
Automated
Configuration
Empower with
Self-Service Across
Teams

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NGINX Controller 3.0+ Built for Modern App Teams
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Software Migration
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To help tackle your toughest challenges
API Management Modernizing Your Apps
Automate Your Pipeline
Want to reduce your app deployment time
from weeks to minutes?
Understand and Manage
Your App Portfolio
Need clear visibility into the number,
performance, and ownership costs of
your apps?
Empower Your Teams with
Self-Service
Aspire to improve collaboration across
your modern app teams to unleash their
productivity and efficiency?
Key Use Cases
Context
Public Cloud & Multi-Cloud

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Key Innovations
Seamless NGINX
Plus Management
Automation-
Driven
Configuration API
App-Centric
User Interface
Self-Service
Portal
Modular, Cross-
Team Workflows
APP
Fastest, most
lightweight and
deployable across
more platforms
Automates services
deployment across
pipelines, reducing
overhead & complexity
Aligns configuration
and visibility to how
teams develop
applications
Delivers self-service to
line of business without
compromising
Enterprise-wide
compliance
Consolidates team
workflows and use
cases across ADC and
API Management

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NGINX ANALYTICS, APPLICATION DELIVERY CONTROLLER, API MANAGEMENT
Enterprise-Ready Application Services
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ADC Management
• Shared & Distributed Datapath Management
• URI Routing, SNI Routing, Cookie Persistence,
LB Methods, Backend Workload Health
Monitoring, Rewrites, Redirects, Header
Manipulation, TCP Socket Tuning, Proxy Tuning
• TCP/UDP load balancing
Visibility & Reporting
Verify health and performance to check the status of
applications and their hosts. Analytics Dashboards and
API Endpoint for Events and Measures
• Application centric end user performance reporting
• Per-API reporting
• Instance-based Metrics & Events
• Customizable dashboarding
• Infrastructure dashboarding
• NGINX Config Analyzer
Application & API Security
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) OWASP top 10
Protection
• False positive lifecycle management
• Application security dashboarding and reporting
• Authentication: JWT, API keys
• Rate limit throttling and burst support
• Conditional access policies (per-URI)
Automation-friendly via API
Provides APIs that enable automation and
orchestration of the applications and APIs published
through Controller, ensuring quality, consistency,
visibility, and improved operational efficiency.
API Management
Lifecycle Management
• API definitions version management
• Import from Swagger/OAS
(from file, copy/paste, or API)
• Publish one or more versions of each
API, optionally specify base path
• Drag and drop routing
Dev Portal (API Documentation)
• Modern, customizable Portal UI
• Manage Shared and Distributed Dev Portals
• Multi Application / Published / Version aware
interface
Robust Platform & Ecosystem
• AWS NGINX+ instance management
• Advanced Role Based Access Controls
• Active Directory Integration with Role Mapping
• Data forwarding to Splunk and Datadog
Certificate Management
Deploy, update, and decommission certs
• Certificate details can be easily viewed
• Certificate and keys can be easily associated with
applications
• PKCS12 (binary) or PEM (ASCII) format supported
when uploading certificates to Controller
• Count of certificates expiring within 30 days and 31-
60 days available

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Demo

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Demo
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16. NGINX Instance Manager

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#1 97%
Source: NGINX User survey 2020
Source: Netcraft June 2020 Web Server Survey
“Most websites use NGINX” of NGINX deployments
use NGINX open source

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Make NGINX even
simpler to
configure, scale
and maintain

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Simplicity
• Configure and maintain NGINX instances at scale
• Reads existing conf files
• Works with your existing configurations, tools and processes.
• Top stats/score
• API First Focus
• Metrics provided in Prometheus Query Language
Find and Secure instances
• Scan utilizing stealth ports and tagging
• CVE vulnerability and outdated version information
• Near expired certificates (coming soon)
Configuration Management
• Centralized Validation
• Analysis and Suggestions
• Lightweight UI for inventory management
• Rollback and change alerting (coming soon)
• Template code and publish to multiple instances (coming soon)
Overview
NGINX INSTANCE MANAGER

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Key Capabilities
API for NGINX
Instance Discovery and
Scanning
Simple Linux service
and Package Install
Compatibility with
existing tools
Configuration
Management
External Metrics/Alerts

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