AccessPolicy in NGINX Gateway Fabric lets you allow or block client IP addresses and CIDR ranges on a Gateway or on individual routes. If you already use NGINX Gateway Fabric to manage traffic into your cluster, you can now control which clients reach your apps in the same place, with a policy attached to the […]

I rate my NGINX skills as basic. I’ve done the normal things: web serving, reverse proxy and a few upstreams, some TLS. If something went sideways, I’d be learning the ins and outs on the fly. That’s great if you want to learn that, but I’m much more interested in evaluating architectures and building systems […]

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America comes to Salt Lake City, November 9–12, and the NGINX team is heading up the mountain with it. Our theme this year is the transition to enterprise-grade Kubernetes, and that now includes AI traffic: inference requests competing for GPUs, and AI agents calling tools over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). […]

NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.8 adds AccessPolicy, which allows or denies traffic to a Gateway or route by client IP address. Passive health checks in UpstreamSettingsPolicy let you decide how many failed attempts take an upstream server out of rotation and for how long, and cookie-based session persistence now works on NGINX Open Source. NGINX Gateway […]

NGINX Ingress Controller 5.7 speaks HTTP/2 to your upstream services, set per upstream or picked up from a Service’s appProtocol. An Opaque Secret now works anywhere a TLS, CA, htpasswd, or API key Secret does, so you can use a Secret created by other tooling as it is. HTTP-01 challenges from cert-manager complete on hosts […]

Knowing where traffic comes from can help you decide where it goes. NGINX Open Source 1.31.7 brings GeoIP2 and GeoLite2 database support to the existing native GeoIP modules, giving users a straightforward path to current geolocation data. This release also adds modern HTTP/2 prioritization, improves reloads and binary upgrades for BPF-enabled QUIC deployments, and includes […]

NGINX Ingress Controller turns Kubernetes resources into NGINX configuration. Many of those inputs are free-form text: snippet annotations on Ingresses, snippets on VirtualServers, and in the global ConfigMap. A typo in any of them can produce configuration that NGINX refuses to load. Config safety makes sure such a mistake stays with the resource that introduced it. Configuration […]

If you run a platform with a dozen or more services behind it, you’ve probably seen this pattern. Service A checks an API key. Service B calls out to your identity provider directly. Service C has a half-finished authentication middleware that hasn’t been touched in a while. Every team solved the same problem differently, and […]

Before the latest release, NGINX had to be controlled exclusively by Unix signals. The most notable one is SIGHUP or the well-known “nginx -s reload” command. This configuration method, while very stable, does not meet modern environment requirements: there are very few available options, no direct feedback messages on errors, and no real extensibility. We […]

Note: Written by a human. In blog diagram graphic made by AI. NGINX processes HTTP requests in phases. Each phase is designed for specific actions and decisions on the qualities of the request. However, reading of various parts of the request is spread out through multiple phases. A HTTP request consists of several distinct parts. […]