Achieve Full API Lifecycle Management Using NGINX Controller – EMEA
- 2. Agenda 1. Introducing NGINX 2. NGINX Controller 3. The need for API Management 4. How NGINX does API Management 5. Live demo 6. Q&A
- 3. 3 “... when I started NGINX, I focused on a very specific problem – how to handle more customers per a single server.” - Igor Sysoev, NGINX creator and founder
- 4. Introducing NGINX 4 2004 • NGINX 0.1 2007 • “Viable” 2011 • NGINX, Inc. • NGINX 1.0 2013 • NGINX Plus R1 2018 • NGINX Plus R17 • NGINX Unit 1.0 • Controller 1.0 2019 • Controller 2.0 (API mgmt.)
- 5. • Offices in San Francisco, Cork, Cambridge, Moscow, Singapore and Sydney • 400M websites • 1,500+ commercial customers • 250 employees
- 6. Source: W3Techs Web server ranking, 07-Jan-2019 #1for the busiest sites The busiest sites choose NGINX 49% 60% 66% Top 1M Top 100K Top 10K
- 7. 40%NGINX Plus deployed as an API gateway Source: NGINX User survey 2017, 2018
- 8. NGINX Application Platform The industry’s only solution that drives 10x simplification and 80% cost savings by combining load balancers, API gateway, and service mesh into a single, modular platform
- 9. Why NGINX Controller? 9 Simplified Management Strategic Command Deployment Agility Effortlessly deploy, validate and troubleshoot multiple NGINX Plus instances across a multi cloud environment Enable developers to deploy new features and applications faster Prevent outages by gaining deep visibility and following best practice performance and security recommendations
- 10. NGINX Controller Mission control for your applications
- 11. NGINX Controller Mission control for your applications Full lifecycle management for your APIs
- 12. Why develop APIs? • Break down siloes and unlock data (within and among organizations) • Increase collaboration amongst developers Unlock data • Primary interface for communication amongst microservices. Foundational for microservices • New opportunities to generate revenue and build partnerships with third-party developers and entire business ecosystem of suppliers, distributors, resellers, and even customers • Expose APIs via Dev Portal • “Digital marketplace” for an enterprise New digital revenue stream External APIsInternal APIs
- 13. APIs Are Experiencing Explosive Growth Source: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/research-shows-interest-providing-apis-still-high/research/2018/02/23
- 14. API as a source of revenue 14 Source: 2014 Search Security article: https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/2240222882/API-gateways-emerge-to-address-growing-security-demands 50% of Salesforce’s revenues come from APIs 90% of Expedia's revenues come from APIs
- 15. API Management API Management Definition & Publication Security Traffic Mgmt. (API GW) Ongoing Monitoring & Maintenance Analytics to Assess API Value Onboarding (Dev Portal) 15
- 16. How NGINX does API Management 16
- 17. NGINX Controller No-compromise architecture Monolith API Microservice Microservice Microservice Monolith API Monolith API NGINX Controller Microservices / Microgateway Architecture Policy Policy
- 18. What Is NGINX Controller API Management Module? 18
- 19. Data plane (NGINX Plus) does not require runtime connectivity to control plane (NGINX Controller) Reduce Complexity with NGINX 19 API Management including definition, monitoring and analytics is decoupled from API GW resulting in high performance. Results: • Reduces average response time to serve API calls • Minimizes footprint and complexity of API GW • Same high performance regardless of where API GW is deployed (whether to handle N/S traffic or E/W traffic) • No need for additional software components
- 20. Key Capabilities 20 API Definition & Publication Monitor & Analyze Performance Overview Dashboard Customizable Dashboards Troubleshoot Issues with Alerts Extract Insights with REST API Support Support for Multi- Cloud Environment Rate Limiting Authentication & Authorization
- 21. Support for Multi-Cloud Environment 21 NGINX Controller is a Docker package Can be deployed on any public or private cloud Can manage NGINX Plus instances on any public or private cloud
- 22. Extract Insights with REST API Support 22 REST API: Securely extract health and performance metrics and integrate into monitoring tool of choice
- 23. Controller Vision 23 • Orchestration platform for all NGINX Plus products • Analytics platform for all NGINX Plus products • Modular, use case centric approach • Ecosystem friendly CLIGUI App Delivery API Management NGINX Controller Orchestration Analytics NGINX Plus Service Mesh
- 25. API Definition & Publication • Create multiple API definitions using an intuitive interface ◦ Create upstream groups and backend servers ◦ Create API definitions and resources ◦ Route resources to upstream groups ◦ Publish resulting config to NGINX Plus instances (API gateway) ◦ Configures NGINX Plus as an API gateway based on best practices 25
- 26. Rate Limiting • Mitigate DDoS attacks and protect your applications by setting rate limits: ◦ Specify the maximum request rate for each client, consumer, or resource ◦ Enforce two-stage rate limits: Delay and reject ◦ Protect API endpoints and ensure SLAs for API consumers ◦ Define multiple rate limiting policies based on the varying needs of your API consumers 26
- 27. Authentication & Authorization • Create and manage API keys for API consumers in order to to authenticate and provide access to resources : ◦ Import API keys from external systems ◦ Share with API consumers 27
- 28. Monitor & Analyze Performance 28 • Is any API GW unavailable? • When do we see a slowdown? • Where are HTTP errors occurring? Deep visibility and insights into KPIs (per API GW basis) using an agent: • Visualize real time traffic and system stats • Analyze usage & performance trends including for 200 metrics: • System (OS ) • NGINX Plus instance
- 29. Overview Dashboard 29 • Overview page: Summarizes metrics across multiple instances ◦ Unique Application Health Score: Aggregate measure of successful requests and timely responses ◦ CPU usage ◦ Performance ◦ Errors • Verify health of environment • Helps showcase application health to key stakeholders
- 30. Customize Dashboards 30 Measure what matters to you by creating your own dashboard: • Start quickly from pre-defined templates • Create from scratch • Create dashboards specific to an Entry Point
- 31. Troubleshoot Issues with Alerts 31 Helps you meet your SLAs by ensuring performance and reliability of your applications: • Receive alerts based on thresholds • See errors in real time • Upcoming slack integration allows easy collaboration with team members
- 32. 33 Getting Started • Request a free trial from our website • Set up Controller in a few minutes • Start managing your APIs immediately
- 33. Liam Crilly | [email protected] Q&A