Episode 124 - NginX

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