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 video, I want to go through the following topics in NginX
- What is NginX? 2:25
- Current & Desired Architecture 4:58
- Layer 4 and Layer 7 Proxying in Nginx 8:40
- Example 10:25
- Install Nginx (mac) 13:30
- Nginx as a Web Server 15:00 (webserver.conf)
- Static context location root 20:00
- regular expression 27:00
- proxy pass 30:30
- Nginx as a Layer 7 Proxy 33:30
- Proxy to 4 backend NodeJS services (docker) 37:00
- IP_Hash load balaning 43:00
- Split load to multiple backends (app1/app2) 46:00
- Block certain requests (/admin) 49:00
- NGINX as a Layer 4 Proxy 51:30
- Create DNS record 1:01:08
- Enable HTTPS on Nginx (lets encrypt) 1:05:08
- Enable TLS 1.3 on Nginx 1:14:00
- Enable HTTP/2 on NGINX 1:17:10
- Summary 1:20:10
Cards
3:40 proxy vs reverse proxy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhe__GdWC8&t=1s
8:50 OSI Model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IS7gigunyI
10:00 L4 vs l7 load balancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKMLgFVxZYk
34:00 spin up docker app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmSMrQ8Ev9w&t=14s
44:26 stateless vs stateful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFPzI_Qg3FU
1:16:30 TLS video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlE5X1NlHgg&t=8s
