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