Participants joined F5 & NGINX for a training focused on helping organizations leverage NGINX solutions to position and effectively support the industry shift towards modern application development processes (containers, Kubernetes, micro-services, DevOps, and DevSecOps). Organizations are finding it difficult to match the velocity required by development teams while implementing consistent zero trust, identity policies, application delivery services, security controls, and centralized governance.

NGINX Kubernetes Ingress Controller (KIC) is the most widely deployed ingress controller for Kubernetes and can reduce the complexity of clusters by consolidating traffic routing, security services, authentication, encryption, and API gateway functions. It is a lightweight, high-performance solution that handles production-scale Kubernetes service routing of incoming requests. NGINX Plus KIC monitors Kubernetes environments to automatically identify new container applications and make necessary changes to the NGINX configurations dynamically, for automated ingress and egress routing, and for new or changed applications.

During the hands-on lab, we covered various NGINX Plus concepts with a focus on NGINX Kubernetes Ingress Controller. In this course, attendees learned how to do the following:

• Deploy modern applications with modern tools
• Deploy NGINX+ Kubernetes Ingress Controller (KIC)
• Expose an application service in Kubernetes
• Deploy L4 and L7 application services