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NGINX Load Balancing

Course overview and objectives

0.5 days
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Duration

0.5 days (4 hr)

Overview

NGINX Load Balancing is a 4-hour class for system administrators, DevOps, and architects who need a deeper understanding of NGINX load balancing. NGINX Load Balancing begins with a general review of load balancing. You'll cover load balancer configuration, selection algorithms, and weighting. The follow up activities include: configuring an upstream, session persistence, and enabling extended status / live activity monitoring. The class also covers TCP/UDP load balancing, with active health checks and configuration of routing and IP sourcing. We demonstrate a highly available (HA) NGINX systems in case of node failure. The objective of this class is to enable you to deploy a high performing (ADC) application delivery controller using NGINX Plus and its features.

Course Objectives

  • Set up http load balancing to backend servers
  • Describe load balancing migration scenarios
  • Configure and test the backup parameter
  • Use the NGINX live activity monitoring dashboard to monitor HTTP and TCP back-end servers
  • Understand and configure session persistence methods
  • Configure and test TCP load balancing and active health checks
  • Understand HA scenarios

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.