Create a service Mesh inside your network using Nginx nodes.
Rating: 10 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
Nginx is present at different levels across my projects. Sometimes is just a Web Server, others a Load Balancer or an API proxy with SSL/TLS management, it's just great that's so lightweight that you can deploy as many instances as you want, for different purposes and create a services mesh inside your organization's network.
Pros
- Low memory footprint, high performance, low maintenance.
- Modular, configurable, flexible. You can create totally different nodes from the same Nginx version. I.e. you can use 1 instance to run a Web Server and another to run a gRPC rate limiter.
- Nginx Plus suite is awesome! and has really nice features for high end users as well. It complements really well with the core, open source products.
- Great ecosystem for API and Microservices management and governance
- Excellent Web Server, of course!
Cons
- Some parts or modules form Nginx Plus suite would be really useful in the Open Source world. But it's just about paying the fee or implement it yourself though.
- No .htaccess support (https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/likeapache-htaccess/)
- Low diversity and extension of modules.
Likelihood to Recommend
When deploying API services, we need to take care of many aspects of the network where they work. Infrastructure is also a factor when limited, so you also need to limit and manage it according to its use. Nginx is great to construct these network nodes (HTTP, API Proxy) that connects everything and can add extra capabilities like security (ModSecurity, SSL/TLS) and availability (Load Balancer, Rate Limit).
LQ
Leonel Quinteros
Director of Technology in Information Technology at Global Brigades, Inc. (Philanthropy, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
8 years of experience