NGINX Plus

NGINX Plus provides web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and API gateway functions. It extends NGINX Open Source with enterprise features such as active health checks, session persistence, dynamic upstream configuration, and RESTful API control. The product supports high availability through monitoring, live activity dashboard, and intelligent load balancing for HTTP, TCP, and UDP traffic. Security includes request limiting, TLS 1.3, JWT authentication, and dynamic DDoS mitigation. Deployment occurs across cloud, on-premises, and containerized environments with support for Kubernetes scaling.

Core Strengths:

• Serves as an HTTP/S web server, handling high traffic loads.
• Acts as a reverse proxy for architecture decoupling.
• Distributes load using load balancing across backends.
• Supports API gateway and routing for microservices.
• Enables SSL/TLS termination for secure traffic.
• Caches content to reduce backend load and improve performance.
• Integrates with Kubernetes, observability, and cloud environments.

Use Cases:

• High‑traffic enterprise web hosting.
• Microservices API gateway and routing.
• Kubernetes ingress and service mesh traffic controls.
• Load balancing across global backends.
• Secure TLS termination and traffic encryption.