Here is my third and final doodle from the F5 NGINX Sprint 2.0 event that I have been attending with the Tech Field Day Delegates.

During the sessions the specialists at NGINX ran the journey of modernising enterprise applications incorporating the components with NGINX including, NGNIX, NGINX Plus, NGINX App Protect, NGINX Instance Manage, Contoller and much more

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I’ve enjoyed learning about NGINX and the NGINX portfolio during the Sprint 2.0 event. I hadn’t previously had much experience with NGINX, and now after Sprint 2.0, I understand how enterprise organisations are using NGINX’s open source applications and commercial applications to solve day two operational issues.

I think it is excellent for NGINX and their customers that there will be further investment and focus on open source products and engagement. This is clearly an area that attracts new customers through the developer community but then drives new customers to the commercial products when day 2 problems need to be solved by the operations team.

I was also particularly impressed by the F5 integration in the portfolio with technologies such as App Protect but as well as this there is claear delination between NGINX and F5 Big-IP with Big-IP focusing on traditional applications and NGINX on modern adaptable applications.

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With my fellow Tech Field Day delegates, we attended NGINX Sprint 2.0. Below is my first doodle from the first day's sessions.

This doodle covers the changing face of applications and the impact the Covid period has had on transformation. Some of the thoughts NGINX customers Audi and Blackrock had on why they selected NGINX for their modern applications. I particularly liked Blackrocks session that explored their R3SPs for application deployment and how NGINX met these. These were

Resilience

Scale

Security

Stability

Performance

Finally, the doodle shows the significant changes that NGINX has made to their platforms since the last sprint event.

As NGINX is relatively new to me, what impressed me was the ability for their products to support both developers and ops with modern application deployments, allowing scale, simplicity of deployment and flexibility alongside enhanced security thanks to the integrated F5 technologies.

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The below graphic shows the different components within the NGINX portfolio, these include

NGINX Plus - An all in one load balancer, content cache and web server

NGINX Controller - Manage load balancers, API gateways and service mesh deployments at scale

NGINX App Protect - Modern app security powered by F5 WAF technology running on NGINX Plus

NGINX Unit - Dynamic application server with a REST API driven configuration

NGINX Ingress Controller - Ingress load balancing on kubernetes platforms

NGINX Instance Manager - Configure, Scale and manage your open source and enterprise configurations across your business

NGINX Service Mesh - Secure service to service management of both north south and east west traffic in kubernetes environments

NGINX Amplify - Cloud hosts monitoring and statistical analysis for NGINX and NGINX Plus

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