Название: NGINX Unit Cookbook: Recipes for Using a Versatile Open Source Server, First Edition
Автор: Derek DeJonghe
Издательство: O'Reilly Media
Год: 2020
Страниц: 108
Язык: английский
Формат: True PDF + pdf, rtf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB, 10.1 MB

The NGINX Unit Cookbook aims to provide a reference for using NGINX Unit through practical real-world examples. Throughout this book, you will learn about NGINX Unit, its features, and where it fits in your system architecture. This guide will provide you with the knowledge to effectively use NGINX Unit and simplify your system architecture by using a single middleware server for a wide range of web application use cases.

NGINX Unit is a dynamic web application server, which means that it can be dynamically reconfigured during runtime without dropping requests. The architecture of Unit is such that request handling is broken into layers. These layers comprise a controller process, a router process, and some application processes.

This book will be most useful for system engineers, architects, and those in a DevOps role, whose position is focused on web application delivery, deployment, and security. A background in web application hosting and the HTTP protocol will help readers understand the concepts contained in this book.

Chapter 1 will explain the what and why of NGINX Unit, in a traditional report form, before transitioning to the how, in a cookbook format, for the rest of the book. The main focus areas will be installation of NGINX Unit, its configuration API, serving applications and routing requests, security and application isolation, and integration with common web languages and ecosystems.

Learn how Unit differs from other middleware application servers
Install Unit using source code, Red Hat and Debian systems, or third-party repositories
Configure Unit using application, router, and listener objects
Start and stop the Unit server and the applications it runs
Manage user permissions, Linux namespace isolation, and API security
Run WordPress, Django, and other web applications with Unit
Serve applications with an NGINX proxy or load balancer

Contents:
Preface
1. Unit Introduction and Features
2. Installation
3. Configuration
4. Usage and Operations
5. Security
5.1. Unix User Permissions
5.2. Linux Namespace Isolation
5.3. API Security Through Encryption
6. Application Integration
7. Ecosystem Integration
Index