Description
There’s never been a better time than now to upskill yourself. As such, F5 is offering a complimentary 4-hour NGINX Core Training* conducted by an official NGINX University trainer. Whether you are new to NGINX, starting your first NGINX project, or refining your DevOps skills, this 4-hour virtual training webinar will give you a solid foundation to administer, configure, and manage NGINX using best practices. NGINX Core is also a pre-requisite to the Advanced training Modules available in NGINX University.
Join us in this webinar to learn:
• Introduction to NGINX
Use cases and benefits
Overview of architecture
• Basic configuration
nginx.conf and configuration structure
Directives, blocks and context
• NGINX as a web server
Configuring an HTTP server
Server selection
Location context and processing
• Using Variables
Using variables in various directives
• Logging
Setting up error and access logs
• NGINX as a reverse proxy
proxy_pass directive and behaviour
preserving the client IP address
• Defining custom variables
Using maps
• NGINX as a load balancer
Basic road robin load balancing configuration
Load balancing techniques, including Hash, IP Hash, Least connections
• NGINX API
Enabling the API
Accessing the NGINX Plus dashboard
• Health Checks
Configure a basic health check to monitor upstream servers
• Caching
Cache responses from upstream servers
• Encrypting traffic
SSL termination
Setup a server over HTTPS
Speaker: Johnny Tu, Official NGINX University Trainer, ServiceRocket.
*This is a complimentary four-hour session provided by F5. The session will be available live only on the time and date indicated. Training certificates will not be provided following on from these sessions.
