NGINX Controller: faster deployments, fewer headaches
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The document discusses the challenges enterprises face during digital transformation, including infrastructure lock-in, security bottlenecks, and tool sprawl. It introduces the NGINX Controller 3.0+, designed to empower organizations to improve application deployment speed, visibility, and collaboration. The platform aims to automate deployments and enhance application management across multi-cloud environments, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency.
NGINX Controller: faster deployments, fewer headaches
- 1. NGINX Controller KOEN VANDERPOORTEN SOLUTION ENGINEER F5
- 3. | ©2019 F5 3 CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE BUSINESS AGILITY DIGITAL ROI Enterprises are undergoing intense digital transformation to drive business growth
- 4. | ©2019 F5 4 SUCCESS IS A FUNCTION OF VOLUME, SPEED, AND COST CONFIDENTIAL How efficiently can you deliver new products and services to win, grow, and retain your customers? Speed to Market Volume of Successful Deployments / Innovation 1000s > Year Months Weeks Days Minutes 100s 10s Your Company Your Competitor Amazon “every 11.7 seconds, on average” with reduction in both number and duration of outages Relative Cost: Bubble Size (Low-small, Medium, High-large) Illustrative Netflix “thousands of times per day” Nordstrom “monthly” with fewer bugs Facebook “twice weekly” Etsy “more than 50 deployments a day with fewer disruptions” Fidelity “one to two hours” resulting in “easier to display regulatory compliance”
- 5. | ©2019 F5 5 “Facebook's accelerated development lifecycle continues to reshape consumers' expectations of software. Its recently announced bi-weekly app updates effectively served notice that constant, rapid refreshes for mobile apps are the new normal, and any company that can't keep up risks getting left behind.” ─TechBeacon CONFIDENTIAL
- 6. | ©2019 F5 6 CONFIDENTIAL What’s stopping you from moving up and to the right? Infrastructure Lock-In Limits application portability across clouds Security & Network Bottlenecks Prevents agility and collaboration among roles Tool Sprawl Leads to complexity and higher costs App Architecture Changes As Devs and DevOps Apps move from virtualized to container and microservices, can’t keep up Poor/Lost App Visibility Limited tools exist to manage governance across clouds Line of Business Responsibility As infrastructure services and ops decision-making decentralized, lines of business have assumed end-to-end ownership
- 8. | ©2019 F5 8 CONFIDENTIAL • Meet NGINX Controller 3.0+: The First App-Centric, Multi-Cloud Application Platform for Modern App Teams
- 9. | ©2019 F5 9 CONFIDENTIAL • NGINX Controller 3.0+ helps empower enterprises to deliver the same high-performance, connected experiences as digital innovators. Respond with Intelligent Insights To Remediate Issues and Maintain Uptime Continuous Security Aligned to Speed of Modern Apps Simplifies Code to Customer Through Automated Configuration Empower with Self-Service Across Teams
- 10. | ©2019 F5 10 NGINX Controller 3.0+ Built for Modern App Teams CONFIDENTIAL
- 11. | ©2019 F5 11 Software Migration CONFIDENTIAL To help tackle your toughest challenges API Management Modernizing Your Apps Automate Your Pipeline Want to reduce your app deployment time from weeks to minutes? Understand and Manage Your App Portfolio Need clear visibility into the number, performance, and ownership costs of your apps? Empower Your Teams with Self-Service Aspire to improve collaboration across your modern app teams to unleash their productivity and efficiency? Key Use Cases Context Public Cloud & Multi-Cloud
- 12. | ©2019 F5 12 CONFIDENTIAL Key Innovations Seamless NGINX Plus Management Automation- Driven Configuration API App-Centric User Interface Self-Service Portal Modular, Cross- Team Workflows APP Fastest, most lightweight and deployable across more platforms Automates services deployment across pipelines, reducing overhead & complexity Aligns configuration and visibility to how teams develop applications Delivers self-service to line of business without compromising Enterprise-wide compliance Consolidates team workflows and use cases across ADC and API Management
- 13. | ©2019 F5 13 NGINX ANALYTICS, APPLICATION DELIVERY CONTROLLER, API MANAGEMENT Enterprise-Ready Application Services CONFIDENTIAL ADC Management • Shared & Distributed Datapath Management • URI Routing, SNI Routing, Cookie Persistence, LB Methods, Backend Workload Health Monitoring, Rewrites, Redirects, Header Manipulation, TCP Socket Tuning, Proxy Tuning • TCP/UDP load balancing Visibility & Reporting Verify health and performance to check the status of applications and their hosts. Analytics Dashboards and API Endpoint for Events and Measures • Application centric end user performance reporting • Per-API reporting • Instance-based Metrics & Events • Customizable dashboarding • Infrastructure dashboarding • NGINX Config Analyzer Application & API Security • Web Application Firewall (WAF) OWASP top 10 Protection • False positive lifecycle management • Application security dashboarding and reporting • Authentication: JWT, API keys • Rate limit throttling and burst support • Conditional access policies (per-URI) Automation-friendly via API Provides APIs that enable automation and orchestration of the applications and APIs published through Controller, ensuring quality, consistency, visibility, and improved operational efficiency. API Management Lifecycle Management • API definitions version management • Import from Swagger/OAS (from file, copy/paste, or API) • Publish one or more versions of each API, optionally specify base path • Drag and drop routing Dev Portal (API Documentation) • Modern, customizable Portal UI • Manage Shared and Distributed Dev Portals • Multi Application / Published / Version aware interface Robust Platform & Ecosystem • AWS NGINX+ instance management • Advanced Role Based Access Controls • Active Directory Integration with Role Mapping • Data forwarding to Splunk and Datadog Certificate Management Deploy, update, and decommission certs • Certificate details can be easily viewed • Certificate and keys can be easily associated with applications • PKCS12 (binary) or PEM (ASCII) format supported when uploading certificates to Controller • Count of certificates expiring within 30 days and 31- 60 days available
- 15. | ©2019 F5 15 Demo main back end refer transfer NGINX Controller arcadia-finance.io
- 17. | ©2019 F5 17 #1 97% Source: NGINX User survey 2020 Source: Netcraft June 2020 Web Server Survey “Most websites use NGINX” of NGINX deployments use NGINX open source
- 18. | ©2019 F5 18 Make NGINX even simpler to configure, scale and maintain
- 19. | ©2019 F5 19 Simplicity • Configure and maintain NGINX instances at scale • Reads existing conf files • Works with your existing configurations, tools and processes. • Top stats/score • API First Focus • Metrics provided in Prometheus Query Language Find and Secure instances • Scan utilizing stealth ports and tagging • CVE vulnerability and outdated version information • Near expired certificates (coming soon) Configuration Management • Centralized Validation • Analysis and Suggestions • Lightweight UI for inventory management • Rollback and change alerting (coming soon) • Template code and publish to multiple instances (coming soon) Overview NGINX INSTANCE MANAGER
- 20. | ©2019 F5 20 Key Capabilities API for NGINX Instance Discovery and Scanning Simple Linux service and Package Install Compatibility with existing tools Configuration Management External Metrics/Alerts
- 21. | ©2019 F5 21