NGINX Meetup: Kubernetes Ingress, NGINX Unit, and Creating a Reverse Proxy
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The NGINX team is thrilled to invite you to our Cork office for an evening of tech talks and community building. Join our engineering team for food, beverages, and swag.
For the first time, we will also be streaming the MeetUp via Zoom! Join us here starting at 17:45!
Agenda:
17:30 - Welcome drinks, networking
18:00 - Traffic Routing in a Kubernetes Cluster Using NGINX Ingress Controller
18:30 - Killing the Reverse Proxy from the Inside: the Evolution of NGINX Unit
19:00 - Creating a Reverse Proxy from Scratch in Go
19:30 - Surprise Announcement!
19:40 - Food! Drinks! Networking!
- Traffic Routing in a Kubernetes Cluster Using NGINX Ingress Controller by Ciara Stacke
An Ingress controller is a specialized load balancer for Kubernetes environments. It abstracts away the complexity of Kubernetes application traffic routing and provides a bridge between Kubernetes services and external ones. The NGINX Ingress Controller is a production‑grade Ingress controller that runs alongside NGINX Open Source or NGINX Plus instances in a Kubernetes environment. This talk provides an introduction to the NGINX Ingress Controller, and provides some real world examples of how to use NGINX ingress Custom Resources to expose an application in a Kubernetes environment.
- Killing the Reverse Proxy from the Inside: the Evolution of NGINX Unit by Liam Crilly
NGINX as a web server and reverse proxy has been integral to the architectural patterns for web services and applications for over a decade. From the LEMP stack, to containerized apps, to Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes. But in another NGINX open source project, there is a mission to kill the reverse proxy because it represents an unnecessary layer in the application stack. In this session we introduce NGINX Unit, created by the original NGINX team on an evolved architecture with a vision of delivering a simpler architecture for web applications.
- Creating a Reverse Proxy from Scratch in Go by Tom Meaney
Reverse proxies, such as NGINX, are something that we all interact with regularly while we use the internet. In this talk we will build a reverse proxy in Go from the ground up adding the most common features in a step-by-step fashion to pull back the curtains on what a reverse proxy is and how the features work and by the end a reverse proxy should no longer be a magic black box!
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