2 years ago

Category: Kubernetes, nginx, github, yaml, ansible

At this year’s NGINX Sprint 2.0 virtual conference, NGINX, the arm of F5 behind the popular open source web server/load balancer and reverse proxy of the same name, released the NGINX Modern Apps Reference Architecture (MARA), which it says in a blog post will help companies to “create a complete, fully operational microservices‑based application that you can get up and running in minutes, hosted in a single GitHub Repo.” For most enterprises that are getting started, it’s a little bit of black magic,” Rob Whiteley, GM of the NGINX Product Group at F5, said in an interview with The New Stack.

So, we started creating a very opinionated way to pull it down where it automatically configures all the NGINX components to the best practice state.”

We wanted to go one step further and actually make this working, living, breathing code that you could deploy.

It also has a number of plans for F5 and NGINX tools, such as an integration with NGINX Controller to manage and monitor NGINX Plus Ingress Controller, out-of-the-box configuration for NGINX App Protect, integrations with F5 products and services like BIG‑IP, Cloud Services, and Volterra, and an integration with NGINX Service Mesh and Istio‑based Aspen Mesh.