Conclusion

This book has focused on high-performance load balancing, security, and deploying and maintaining NGINX and NGINX Plus servers. The book has demonstrated some of the most powerful features of the NGINX application delivery platform. NGINX Inc. continues to develop amazing features and stay ahead of the curve.

This book has demonstrated many short recipes that enable you to better understand some of the directives and modules that make NGINX the heart of the modern web. The NGINX sever is not just a web server, nor just a reverse proxy, but an entire application delivery platform, fully capable of authentication and coming alive with the environments that it’s employed in.