What you'll learn

Layer 7 Load Balancing between microservices
Layer 4 Load Balancing between microservices
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

Homepage: https://www.udemy.com/course/nginx-crash-course/