NGINX is the world’s number one API gateway, delivering the vast majority of today’s API traffic, deployed as standalone gateways or embedded in API management products. This workshop is about deploying NGINX as a lightweight API gateway in a way that supports long-term maintenance and can be automated with common DevOps tooling.
In this hands-on workshop, you will configure NGINX to perform the common API gateway functions of request routing, rate limiting, and authentication for multiple APIs. We will also touch on advanced use cases such as HTTP method enforcement, and JSON validation.
Previous experience of NGINX is valuable, but not essential. Technical requirements:
- Mandatory: laptop with internet connection
- Highly recommended: clean installation of NGINX (minimum 1.14.0) - limited assistance for this task will be available at the workshop