Microservices Development Cookbook

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1. Install NGINX by running the following command:

apt-get install nginx

2. nginx has a config file, nginx.conf. On an Ubuntu-based Linux system, this will probably be in the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf directory. Open the file and look for the http block and add the following content:

limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=mylimit:10m rate=10r/s;server {    location /auth/signin {        limit_req zone=mylimit;        proxy_pass http://my_upstream;    }}

As you can see from the preceding code, rate limiting is implemented with two configuration directives. The limit_req_zone directive defines the parameters for rate limiting. In this example, we're implementing a rate limit, based on the client's IP address, of 10 requests per second. The limit_req ...