NGINX Explained - What is Nginx

[@TechWorldwithNana]

👉 Here the follow up video to clarify the difference of Proxy vs Reverse Proxy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqCYh2ydbs-ifNU 👉 AND the Nginx Crash Course you were asking for with a simple real-life demo: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2mynZiPqtahqrs Also be sure to subscribe 🔔, if you don't want to miss new videos: www.youtube.com/@TechWorldwithNana?sub_confirmation=1 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ T I M E S T A M P S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="0">00:00</a> - Intro <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="10">00:10</a> - What is Nginx, what is it used for? <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="469">07:49</a> - How to configure Nginx <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="622">10:22</a> - Nginx as Kubernetes Ingress Controller <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="710">11:50</a> - Nginx Load Balancer vs Cloud Load Balancer <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="807">13:27</a> - NGINX vs Apache

[@danialsaeed8131]

How many videos we will get related to nginx? Can you make a full tutorial with hands on kind of crash course for nginx just like you have created for docker and stuff earlier.

[@ahnafabir11]

why don't need nginx while creating an app with node js ?

[@TechWorldwithNana]

@@danialsaeed8131 Will consider it, for now we only planned a video on explaining the difference on (forward) proxy vs reverse proxy.

[@dhiyanesh3624]

What is benefit of using a k8s directly instead of cloud managed k8s

[@osamahalali7171]

What about spring boot🎉 when ... I like u way explanation thank you

[@gabrpark]

It's the clearest overview video on NGINX, and it's amazing how the questions I have at certain points in the video are answered later on.

[@pamus6242]

I exactly know what nginx is. But we needed this from you. It now just feels less painful. Thanks Nana.🙏🙏🙏

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Happy to hear that you still watched the video and liked it 😊 🙏

[@Good-Thikka]

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[@andyg3373]

Vielen Dank für das großartige Video. Die langsame und deutliche Sprache hilft mir Englisch zu verstehen. Die umfangreiche und detaillierte Animationen dazu, machen das ganze inhaltlich leicht zu verstehen. Thanks and greetings from Germany

[@thomas2024-b9q]

You are a legend, thank you for the clear explanation

[@1000left]

What an Excellent EXCELLENT explanation!!!! Well done and THANK YOU!!!

[@rytel542]

Amazing explanation! Love that you also answer the questions that may arise in users head.

[@frano5957]

Brillant ! Three days I was trying to get an understandable explaination of Nginx 😅

[@h3ct0rjs]

I'm always amazed, I always come here from time to time as Professionar SRE/DevOps, I had wished that this videos existed before I started 😀 to learn this I had to read a couple of books and test this in multiple scenarios... , Kudos @Nana

[@IsraelAgyemanPrempeh]

One of the best explanations of nginx I have come across

[@faizanashiq588]

Just love the way you explain Nana

[@luisnoe2682]

The best explanation about Nginx I ever watched 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@spooky_gg]

One of the best videos i have ever watched about NGINX! 😄

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Wow so great to hear, thank you 😊

[@Merd9000]

Thanks @nana, I had a few doubts on Ngenix, through your videos all are demystified. Thanks for simple and crystal clear explanation.

[@altonlebronze3536]

At my previous job, they used Nginx as a proxy and load balancer. My role was to develop an endpoint that would accept requests at an internal address on a non https port. Then I had to talk to sysadmins to configure Nginx to expose the endpoint at an external (public) address on a Https port, and forward the incoming requests to the internal address.

[@nishantkumar6960]

Thanks! was confused about it for 4 years.

[@everurstruly]

Finally. Something factual, practical and easy to understand

[@anonimato1987]

I just love how Nana teaches. I signed up to her bootcamp and can confirm it's good

[@hurricanos13]

You deserve two thumbs for this video

[@tm_2k]

Each next section covered the questions I had from the previous ones, very well presented! One quick suggestion is that a section on why nginx is fast and lightweight would have been great.

[@darkfrozen1860]

Cleanest video on the topic. It always looked like to me that nginx is some encrypted stuff that I could never understand. But this video cleared it all up. Tons of thanks

[@mohamedkhodary7831]

The best introduction to nginx on the internet great job as always 👌

[@MDABDULMOMINRiyadh]

Love The Way you teach us nana! Good to see you with each episode with a new technology.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

That's what I do: New month, new technology 😊 You can count on that 🤝

[@GoziePO]

Thank you for the simple definition of proxy 😅. I read the Wikipedia page describing it but your definition is much more concise!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

You're welcome Gozie! I'm glad you found my explanation helpful. Sometimes, a simpler definition makes all the difference 😊

[@yoketah]

I work for a CDN as a support engineer, and while I had seen NGINX used, as I am fairly new to the job I had no idea just how integrated NGINX is for my job until this video. I deal with everything here for the caching on the CDN, but I did not realize that NGINX is what was used for this. I am still not 100% sure it is nginx that is being used, as I only see that header in curls from some customers going to their origin, but I do not see the header when curling our servers, but I also don't see apache headers either, so I can assume it is just not a custom header set up on our request/response headers. Really good video! gave me a lot of insight into my job haha. Quick question though. For one of our applications (we are a merger of 4 different companies, 2 entirely separate networks), the load balancer is by default main and failover, and it can be set to round robin. I think all of our CND products are set up like this. Is there any reason my company would prefer to have a failover instead of having the default be round robin? It seems like round robin would be the preferred setting.

[@x68507]

You mentioned nginx is faster, better for static content and a more simple configuration, but I thought the biggest benefit of nginx over Apache is simultaneous connections, especially for websites that use web sockets, long polling or SSE. Basically, nginx was designed to handle the C10K problem that Apache faces. Maybe I'm wrong because I'm not a SDE but that's my understanding of nginx.

[@hayat_soft_skills]

Hats off Nana... You are doing amazing job! May Allah give you more power

[@ed0985587]

As someone who works in the streaming media CDN industry, this video is an excellent explanation of the inner workings of NGINX and its use cases! Your videos are amongst the best out there!! Do you happen to have any tutorials on the software you use for creating these types of presentations? Keep up the great content!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Many thanks, happy to hear great feedback from an industry insider! :) It's just a very simple video editor called "Screenflow", I can tell you it's not about the software, but having someone (an engineer) editing the videos, who actually understands what I'm talking, so she can "draw" detailed architecture stuff AND actually taking time to create high-quality videos. And it takes an awful lot of time xD

[@ed0985587]

⁠@@TechWorldwithNanaI see, I was curious because I am likely going to have to craft some network diagrams and possibly present them in the near future. She does a great job! Thanks again! I have passed your videos along to others in the field because they’re highly informative! Cheers!

[@kanishksanger847]

Amazing video. Have always been confused about this now it's pretty much clear to me. Please keep making such easy to understand content related to tech! Thanks!

[@4lpina]

Incredible stuff. You describe stuff in a very understandable manner and it's a pleasure to listen. Thank you!

[@ezrablack5395]

You’re the only person I have a bell notification for 😂 Teachers like you make the world go around 🤘🏽😤🤘🏽

[@jankowalsky9473]

10/10

[@GeorgeKer]

You are always laconic and to the point. Thank you for all these videos! They are really good

[@biswajitmahanta2450]

Awesome , for the first time I understand the nginx vs Apache.

[@marianocalzada6472]

Hallo Nana, you helped me a lot with your docker videos when I was doing my thesis 2 years ago, and today I found this video thanks to the algorithm and I have to say that your videos have improved, from really good to incredibly good ;) Thanks for what you do, sharing knowledge is probably one of the most honest things to do. A hug from Valencia, Spain!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thank you, appreciate your kind words a lot 😊🙏 Greetings to Valencia, great city!

[@prabhakarsakthivel5470]

The Explanation was very much understandable and clear on the topic explained

[@vikastiwari6780]

Nginx mainly design for reverse proxy. It follows event driven approach mean in single thread it handle multiple requests at a time. Configuration is hard but nginx code base setup is easy as compared to other web servers.

[@Andy-uz4gi9cc4t]

Gracias Nana, brillante!!! Saludos desde Cuba ❤

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks and greetings to Cuba :)

[@ThiagoVieira91]

Return of the GOAT!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

🙏😀

[@YokiServices]

You took the words of my mouth! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 @ThiagoVieira91 @TechWorldwithNana

[@anandnune]

Hello Nana, I’m an avid follower of your work, and I’ve greatly benefited from your videos. Your insights have been invaluable. I kindly request that you consider creating a video on OpenShift and Minishift configuration. While Kubernetes remains the dominant container orchestration solution, OpenShift knowledge is increasingly sought after in interviews these days.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

That's really great to hear, thank you for the feedback! :) Will definitely take all the suggestions as an input for deciding on new topics. Which topics would you want to have covered in an Openshift video? With the constraint that it's a 15mins video, not a complete course :)

[@anandnune]

@@TechWorldwithNana How does OpenShift build on top of Kubernetes, and what is its architecture? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using OpenShift? How can one start using it, and how can an OpenShift cluster be auto-scaled when load increases?

[@abishekkumar4932]

I have been nursing nginx proxy manager in my home lab for a year now. But I really understood it after watching this video.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

That's great to hear, thank you for sharing the feedback :)

[@MrVernuk]

I already know what Nginx is, but anyway I learned something new about interaction clouds with Nginx. Thanks, as usual 😊

[@selvamthiagarajan8152]

Thank you for a easy to follow video. Appreciate your passion for sharing educational material.

[@woahdudecalmdown]

Thanks!! now I can add Nginx to my resume ☺❤

[@phoenix2558]

Cleanest , on point video about web server on KZbin realm . Thank you

[@y-notpluto7505]

Thank you for posting this video. It was incredibly helpful in refreshing my knowledge of Nginx. This content is truly insightful for learners. I've added it to my watchlist, and I appreciate the effort you put into creating it. I'm looking forward to more content from you soon. Thanks again.

[@poovarasang9451]

First of all I want to thank you Mam. Because I had learn lot of things by your teach videos.

[@cristobalvalladares973]

That was very good. I'm forwarding this to friends who shared my uncertainties about NGINX. Thank you.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Happy to hear, thanks for the feedback and sharing it :)

[@LighterST]

don't forget to also balance the load between the friends, cache and compress their responses

[@MrTawngKhai]

Very good explaining in a short time

[@DevSecOpsWORLD]

Thank you mam, it cleared all doubt with extra topics about nginx in one video. Can do some projects about configuring nginx.

[@hovhadovah]

What a fantastic video! I've never used nginx before so this cleared up a lot of confusion for me. Cheers!

[@joeprince7509]

Your videos are fantastic, thank you for the clear explanation and wonderful visuals! Just found your channel but going to be watching a lot of your videos now!

[@floehden]

Forgot that nginx has do much use! Thank you for reminding!

[@mhm13dev]

Best explainer 🔥

[@soljafarra8055]

100% agree!

[@prateekbansal9774]

Hey Nana, Thanks for explaining this in a very easiest way. Keep it up !!!

[@JohnSmithhh]

that's exactly the video I hoped to find! Thank you! I very appreciate the fact that you talk about AWS, I was wondering if I should use Nginx

[@2ru2pacFan]

Wow this is amazing! I wasn't expecting to learn it that fast, thanks Nana!

[@FantasticMe007]

Yeah Nana is back❤ Thanks for this content Nana.. im using nginx and i could relate realtime.

[@thrify-11]

so ookie thats was a very deep dive when you start teaching about aws loadbalacer combine with ingress and k8s that was totally awesome knowledge you are damm awesome nice work 🙂

[@ĀRYAN_GENE]

ooh is this it. I learnt apache 6 years ago, and didnt knew what i learnt other than how to configure 😅

[@niteshashok9941]

Extremely useful and well explained.

[@MarcosDemian]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. I'm not very much into backend yet but this was definitely very well explained. Subscribed

[@danchisholm1]

excellent like every other one of nana's videos - better than a university education (not joking)

[@usernameutf-8844]

Thank you 👏

[@solidman8783]

Nicely presented as always, Nana. Thank you!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thank you :I

[@plex360]

I was literally looking for info on this topic and was so glad when I saw you had uploaded a video on it 2 hour ago! Great content as usual!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thank you so much! I'm thrilled to hear that the timing worked out so perfectly :D

[@purvakmistry2128]

Very insightful! Welcome back Nana!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Glad you think so! :)

[@kensutherland5270]

Very informative and well balanced content, thank-you

[@SpencerPhotography]

Ahhhhh this channel is GOLD - Thank you!!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thank you so much for the enthusiastic support! :) I'm really glad you're enjoying the content. If there's any specific topic you'd like to see covered, just let me know!

[@neamana]

It is brief but with essential detail. I suggest a dedicated course on nginx, since now it used more then any other web-server. I will be happy to pay for the course on nginx, the current offerings on nginx courses either with lot of redundant detail with little nginx.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Happy to hear and thank you for your suggestion. I'll take all suggestions and take it as an input for new topics. For a 1-hour crash course on KZbin, what topics and hands-on demo would you want to see?

[@neamana]

@@TechWorldwithNana Thanks below is topic list Use cases and benefits architecture As webserver Location context and processing reverse proxy proxy_pass directive and behaviour preserving client IP custom variables maps Load balancing techniques, Hash, IP Hash, Least connections

[@mohamedkhodary7831]

+1

[@SouravKumar-dj9ko]

Thanks Nana for making an amazing video on Nginx🙏 The concepts were explained so clearly🙂 #Nginx #WebServer #Learning #TechEducation

[@PhilCaisley]

So clear and helpful, thank you

[@Tony-dp1rl]

TL;DR: Nginx is what us old timers used to use before Microsoft, Google and Amazon all provided SaaS offerings (in and out of K8S) that are better.

[@reze_dev]

So we don't need nginx if deploy our app using kubernetes?

[@michaelmichael8406]

​@@reze_devYour container will still use Nginx (or similar) running in your container.

[@gousogabrielle6912]

Nana you are the best. Bravo!

[@gbengaolofin1942]

Awesome delivery!!!!. Thanks Nana

[@Pill-AI]

Very clearly explained… thank you

[@CodingwithE]

clearly explained. loved it.

[@hrithikrajesh4792]

Small video but explained it awesome. liked the way you teach, need more videos about NGINX

[@Siripong66]

Thank you for the video! This is very clear explanation so far.

[@thomash.8297]

Great and helpful video, thanks Nana!

[@Miauwfy8bk]

Amazing! So easy to understand

[@mark11hk63]

Great video. This 15min video teached me a lot. Thank you

[@abhishekprajapati6849]

Beautifully explained!!!

[@coderfek]

Thanks nana! This video was very helpful.

[@phudangviet2305]

Thanks for valuable knowledge

[@juanghpx]

Great explanation! I didn't know about those Nginx features

[@saketkr]

This was a great video. So, grateful.

[@Charming_Orange]

aww I just spent this morning going through the docs ann forums setting up HTTPS

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Hope you were successful and the the video was still useful for you afterwards

[@kesarkiran5265]

Thank you! Very nice illustration and explanation. 👏👏

[@ramprasadboddu2551]

Loved the content shared with clear explanation. Awesome job Nana 💙

[@92stathis]

That was really informative! Thank you!

[@goodhuman1]

Nana GOAT

[@Classically.Inclined]

Thank you for another great upload!

[@kayurbach5182]

two things, unless I got something terribly wrong... a) security through reducing the attack surface is not an attribute of nginx itself, but more of the architecture of having a reverse proxy in the first place. b) while encrypted packet forwarding may sound nice at first, it defeats the caching benefit, since nginx can't cache what it can't see \ read. having nginx as an SSL endpoint and then a new SSL connection between nginx and the backend servers allows for both. especially with rotating keys and certificates under your own, secure CA for your backend.

[@k.ksharma4457]

awesome content as ever Nana 🎉 just simple and knowledgeable and one more thing you have shown money heist web series one of my 😍favorite web series😊

[@manishn6362]

Another wonderful video from you. Thank you Nana. Can you also share some training videos on Unix Shell scripting?

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for this nice feedback and the great suggestion, which I will consider!

[@igweogba6774]

Very nice explanation

[@NachtmahrNebenan]

Thank you, Nana! NGINX is a hero in software. It solved so many problems I had before it was created.

[@den9943]

I missed you, Nana. Thanks for cool content

[@TechWorldwithNana]

You're welcome, appreciate it :)

[@den9943]

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[@mma-dost]

Hey it was really a great introduction to nginx. Keep up the good work. God bless.

[@vickydops]

NGINX also have master and worker architecture. The master process manages the worker processes, while the worker processes handle the actual web traffic.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for sharing!