What’s New with NGINX Controller Load Balancing Module 2.0?
- 2. 2 NGINX Controller Mission control for your applications
- 3. Agenda DXTransformation:Needs& Challenges WhatisNGINX Controller? KeyCapabilities GettingStarted 3
- 4. 4 Applications delivery is at the core of digital transformation. Thestakes for Infrastructure&Operations and DevOps are high.
- 5. Revolution in Application Delivery 5 Source: TechBeacon: https://techbeacon.com/10-companies-killing-it-devops Within a year of Amazon's move to AWS, engineers were deploying code every 11.7 seconds, on average. New releases for mobile app went from twice per year to monthly. 50 deployments a day! Release time for dozens of apps reduced from days to 1-2 hours.
- 6. Cost of IT Downtime 6 Copyright © 2017 ITIC All Right Reserved Results from survey conducted by ITIC: Information Technology Intelligence Consulting Cost of Hourly Downtime for Enterprises in 2017 >$5M $2Mto$5M $1Mto$2M $501,000to $1 Million $401,000to $500,000 $301,000 to $400,000 $201,000to $300,000 $101,000to $200,000 $50,000to $100,000 $10,000to $50,000 Up to$10,000 0% 1% 1% 7% 10% 24% 13% 11% 12% 7% 14% A98% majority ofrespondentssaythat asinglehourofdowntimeperyearcosts theircompany over$100,000. An 81% majority saythecostexceeds $300,000up from76% in2014.And 33% —threein10enterprises—say hourly downtimecoststheirfirms$1Mto>$5M.
- 7. Cost of Poor Performance 7
- 8. Cost of Poor Performance 8 Results from data analyzed by Pingdom in early 2018 Web Page Load Time vs. Bounce Rate (Site Abandonment Rate) 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 1s 2s 3s 4s 5s 6s 7s 8s 9s 10s 11s 12s 13s 14s 15s 16s Pageviews (% of total pageviews) Bounce Rate (%) • Lost Revenues • Increased Support Calls • Brand Damage Page Load Time (seconds) Bounce Rate (%) 1 7 2 6 3 11 4 24 5 38 6 46 7 53 8 59 9 61 10 65 11 62 12 67 13 69 14 66 15 69 16 73
- 9. Cost of IT Complexity 9 76% 24% IT Complexity Impacting Performance % of CIOs worried that IT complexity will make it impossible to manage performance effectively. Resolving digital performance problems costs an organization $2.5 million Survey by Dynatrace: Top Challenges Facing CIOs in a Cloud-Native World
- 10. Orchestration and Performance Management Needs of IT 10 SimplifyDeployment&Managementof ApplicationsatScale EnsurePerformance,AvailabilityandReliabilityof Applications Enable Application Teamsto AccelerateApplicationDeployment Cost of Downtime Cost of Poor Performance Cost of IT Complexity
- 11. What Is NGINX Controller? 11 Helps you to set up all your Load Balancers quickly NGINX Controller manages NGINX Plus instances Keeps all your Load Balancers running
- 12. Why NGINX Controller? 12 Simplified Management Strategic Command Deployment Agility Effortlesslydeploy,validateand troubleshootmultipleNGINXPlus instancesacrossamulticloud environment Enable developerstodeploynew featuresandapplicationsfaster Preventoutagesbygainingdeepvisibility andfollowingbestpracticeperformance andsecurityrecommendations
- 13. Key Capabilities 13 Easy Configuration at Scale Policy Driven Management Monitor & Analyze Performance Overview Dashboard Customizable Dashboards Troubleshoot Issues with Alerts Preemptive Performance & Security Recommendations REST API Support Centralized Instance Inventory Support for Multi- Cloud Environment
- 14. Easy Configuration at Scale • Wizard-style interface to configure LB with a few clicks ◦ Quickly createbasicHTTP/Sconfigurations ◦ L7 trafficrouting basedonURI ◦ SSLkey andcertificatemanagement ◦ Add andremove upstreamservers ◦ Add advancedconfigurations,if desired • Achieve significant savings in time, costs and effort using push-button deployment of configuration across multiple instances ◦ Createoneconfiguration;deployacrossmultipleinstances. 14
- 15. Easy Configuration at Scale
- 16. Policy Driven Configuration Management • Create NGINX Plus config environments for specific environments: ◦ Staging ◦ Production ◦ LOB specific • Ensures consistency ◦ Preventsissuesdueto misconfigurations • Enables control by application owners & developers ◦ Enablesdevelopmentteamsto deployapplicationsfaster ◦ FreesupITresourcesforstrategicinitiativeswhileretaining control 16
- 17. Policy Driven Configuration Management 17 • Create once and push to multiple instances across different environments • Copy configurations • Ensure compliance
- 18. Monitor & Analyze Performance 18 • Is any server unavailable? • When do we see a slowdown? • Which backend servers work slower with this application? • Where are HTTP errors occurring?
- 19. Tag Your Environment 19 • Powerful way to organize and manage your configurations • Categorize load balancers based on person, purpose, environment • Filter configuration by Tags
- 20. Overview Dashboard 20 • Overview page: Summarizes metrics across multiple instances ◦ UniqueApplicationHealthScore:Aggregate measure of successfulrequestsandtimely responses ◦ CPU usage ◦ Performance ◦ Errors • Verify health of environment • Helps showcase application health to key stakeholders
- 21. Customize Dashboards 21 Measure what matters to you by creating your own dashboard: • Startquicklyfrompre-definedtemplates • Createfromscratch
- 22. Troubleshoot Issues Quickly: Alerts 22 Helps you meet your SLAs by ensuring performance and reliability of your applications: • Receivealertsbased on thresholds • Seeerrorsinrealtime • ServiceNowintegrationforstreamlined ITOperationsManagementworkflows
- 23. Preemptive Performance & Security Recommendations 23 Actionable, best practice recommendations based on learnings from thousands of support cases as well as professional service consulting engagements: • Configuration • Security • SSLStatus
- 24. Preemptive Performance & Security Recommendations 24 SSL best practices • WarningsaboutcommonSSLconfigurationerrors Config best practices • Typicalmisconfigurationhighlightedsuch aserrors inconfiglocations • Adviceaboutproxyconfigurations • Keysecuritymeasures(e.g.stub_statusis unprotected)
- 25. Centralized Instance Inventory 25 Summary of all your instances • Seestatusandusageof allinstances • Tracksoftwareand configversions • Enables quickinventoryaudit
- 26. Support for Multi-Cloud Environment 26 Controller is a Docker package Canbe deployedonanypublic orprivate cloud CanmanageNGINX Plusinstanceson anypublicor privatecloud
- 28. 33 Getting Started • Requesta freetrialfromour website • Setup Controllerina few minutes • StartmanagingyourNGINX Plusinstancesnow
Editor's Notes
- #7: 700 IT practitioners across regions across 47 verticals across enterprises and SMBs. Close to 80% require a minimum uptime of 4 9s. The average hourly downtime costs are even greater for companies in top tier and highly regulated verticals including: Banking/Finance; Government; Food; Healthcare; Hotel/Hospitality; Manufacturing; Media & Communications; Retail; Transportation and Utilities where average hourly downtime costs exceeded $5 Million for over 68% of respondent firms with over 1,000 employees. One of our customers, a leading e-commerce and internet advertising business has mentioned that it costs them $1M per minute of downtime.
- #8: Macy’s a well known brick mortar retailer whose web site was slow on Black Friday– last Friday in November when retailers offer deep discounts. It’s a very important day for retailers to ensure their customers have a smooth shopping experience without any glitches.
- #10: 2018 Global CIO Report, 800 CIOs, large enterprises Vanson Bourne & Dynatrace overcoming the hyper-complexity of modern cloud-centric ecosystems
- #11: To recap, IT has the following challenges: downtime, poor performance complexity. IT’s needs have also evolved to address these challenges: By simplifying deployment & management of applications at scale – from deployment, configuration, validation and ongoing monitoring, outages can be reduced or eliminated. Poor performance can be avoided by ensuring appropriate SLAs for performance, availability and reliability are maintained for your applications. IT complexity can be reduced by facilitating rapid app deployment for app teams/developers. Let me show you how Controller helps IT achieve these needs.
- #12: It provides following capabilities: - Simplifies configuration of load balancers at scale Enables a policy driven approach to configuration to ensure consistency and prevent misconfigurations Helps you Avoid performance issues by providing preemptive recommendations Helps you met your SLAs by enabling you to root cause and troubleshoot performance and security issues quickly
- #14: Easy Configuration @ scale: Guided workflow to configure multiple NGINX Plus instances. Configure LBs in just 5 clicks Policy Driven Management: Create policies based on the needs of a specific environment such as production or staging or line of business application needs. Prevents misconfigurations. Enables DevOps to deploy applications faster based on config needs of their specific applications. Monitor & Analyze Performance: Charts and graphs for 200 metrics including NGINX Plus specific KPIs as well as System level KPIs (OS) Overview Dashboard: Aggregate KPIs showcasing health of your application. Customizable Dashboards: Offers flexibility. Create dashboards based on metrics that matter to you. Preemptive Performance & Security Recommendations: Best practice recommendations to address misconfig and weak security issues based on learnings from thousands of support cases and professional service engagements. REST API Support: Metrics can be easily integrated into other tools – any monitoring tool that you use via REST API Centralized Instance Inventory: View all your NGINX instances – easy to perform inventory audit. Support for Multi-Cloud Environment: Controller is a docker package – Deploy on any environment: Private Cloud, Public Cloud or Bare Metal. Manage NGINX Plus instances deployed on any environment:
- #28: Earlier this year The NGINX Application Platform is a suite of products that together form the core of what organizations need to modernize their infrastructure and move to microservices. The NGINX Application Platform includes NGINX Plus for load balancing and application delivery, the NGINX WAF for security, and NGINX Unit to run the application code, all monitored and managed by the NGINX Controller. Note: Please mention that this is a vision and not all the pieces are available yet, such Controller controlling Unit. released enhancements all around the application platform.