Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Nginx Unit

Where nginScript allows us to implement logic in Nginx itself, Unit helps us manage the potentially complex ecosystem of backend services.

A typical microservice architecture usually consists of many distributed services, to just mention a few potentials:

• Frontend servers
• Backend servers, potentially multiple languages
• Database servers
• Caching servers
• Search daemon servers
• Job servers and workers

Managing these servers, keeping Nginx configuration updated as well as managing load balancing and IPs quickly becomes a pain.

This is where Nginx Unit comes in. Unit is an open source application server designed to lessen the pain of managing a highly distributed architecture. This includes managing configurations of programming languages, ...