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Introduction

Nginx as a front-end for IoT (load balancer, reverse proxy, application delivery platform)

  • Key differences between Nginx and Nginx Plus

Management and monitoring capabilities

  • Overview of TCP, HTTP, and UDP protocols
  • Bandwidth requirements
  • The role of UDP in IoT communications

Overview of Nginx Architecture and Functionality

  • How Nginx manages connection "state"
  • How Nginx handles TCP and UDP (conversations, etc.)
  • How Nginx forwards IP addresses to backend servers

Case Study: Nginx as an IoT server

  • IoT Architecture: sensors, hubs, and servers

Installing Nginx

  • Installation on Debian and Ubuntu, as well as from source

Using Nginx as a Load balancer

  • Understanding performance and scalability
  • Load balancing for TCP and HTTP connections
  • Load balancing for UDP connections

Using Nginx as a reverse proxy

  • Replacing the default configuration with custom settings
  • Modifying request headers
  • Fine-tuning response buffering

Using Nginx as a forward proxy

  • Configuring Nginx
  • Forwarding traffic to dynamic hosts rather than predefined ones

Case study: Nginx in Large-Scale Industrial IT Systems

Maximizing Performance

  • Optimizing performance through Nginx parameters, OS settings, and VM CPU/memory ratios
  • Client-side performance optimization

Securing

  • Restricting access
  • Authentication methods
  • Secure links
  • Common security issues in Nginx configurations

Scaling

  • Deploying content across multiple servers
  • Configuration sharing

Enhancing Nginx with LUA scripts and other plugins

  • OpenResty, LuaJIT, and Lua libraries

Logging in Nginx

  • Accessing log and error files across multiple servers
  • Optimizing logging processes

Monitoring Nginx

  • Improving maintainability and reliability

Troubleshooting Nginx

Closing remarks

Requirements

  • Familiarity with TCP/IP
  • Experience using the Linux command line
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