With the increasing adoption of Cloud based solutions, and the complex make-up of the solution architectures, the ability to effectively manage, and modernize application delivery is now a critical component for success. Given the importance of applications to business, Microsoft is enabling digital transformation with best-in-class services from not only our own innovation but also by bringing partner solutions to allow you to build with right set of services for your application.
As part of Microsoft’s commitment to empower customers to migrate and modernize their applications and run in the cloud, we are announcing the preview of Nginx for Azure. This announcement is the result of a close collaboration between Microsoft and F5 the company behind the open-source solution Nginx. The NGINX for Azure offering enables a seamless and modern approach to application delivery in the cloud, powered by the Azure native integration of the Nginx SaaS solution.
Nginx is one the most widely used Traffic Managers, used extensively by both the open-source community and Enterprise customers. Users have traditionally used the Nginx offering as a reverse proxy server or as a Load Balancer withing their on-premises setup. This is a time-consuming process, which requires deep knowledge and technical understanding of both the Nginx solution and Azure.
Based on open-source community feedback, we have worked with F5 to provide a fully managed Nginx offering that is deeply integrated into the Azure infrastructure. This provides a simplified developer experience of the Nginx offering on Azure for the deployment, management, billing and support of the offering, available via the Azure Marketplace,.
Ease of deploying and Managing Nginx on Azure
The service integrates the Nginx SaaS offering into the Azure infrastructure (Control Plane). Via this integration, you will be able to provision a new Nginx service and configure your Azure resources to leverage Nginx as a reverse proxy/load balancer.
You can also bring your existing Nginx configuration file (single or multiple files) and apply it directly to this SaaS offering. The configuration file can also be incorporated directly into the CI-CD pipelines via GitHub integrations. In addition, you can easily configure (one click step) their resource Metrics with Nginx on the Azure portal.