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NGINX Has Modernized Full API Lifecycle Management
NGINX, Inc.,
the company based on the popular open source project and offering a
suite of technologies designed to develop and deliver modern
applications, today announced general availability of its API Management
Module. The API Management Module for NGINX Controller is part of the
NGINX Application Platform, a modular and integrated set of technologies
to help organizations create applications with performance, reliability,
security, and scale. The NGINX API management solution enables
infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams to define and publish APIs,
manage traffic to and secure backend applications, monitor performance
issues, and analyze API usage.
NGINX API Management Module is built on an innovative architecture that
provides three unique benefits:
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Proven - NGINX combines new control-plane functionality
with the raw power and efficiency of NGINX Plus, the industry's most
deployed API gateway. NGINX software powers more than 350 million
websites and, according to our 2018 user survey, more than 40 percent
of NGINX users have already deployed NGINX as an API gateway. NGINX is
also a popular component in many traditional API management solutions,
providing the underlying gateway for Axway, IBM (News - Alert) DataPower, Kong,
MuleSoft, Red Hat 3Scale, and others.
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Performance - NGINX eliminates the need for local databases and
other additional components that introduce needless complexity,
latency, and points of failure. Unlike traditional API management
solutions, NGINX isolates API runtime traffic from API management
traffic. As a result, the NGINX Plus API gateway (data plane) does not
require constant connectivity to NGINX Controller (control plane).
This reduces complexity and maximizes performance by reducing the
average response time to serve an API call.
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Portable - Both NGINX Controller and NGINX Plus are flexible
and can be deployed on any environment due to their small footprint -
bare metal, VMs, containers, and public, private, and hybrid clouds
This versatility means you can use the NGINX API Management Module for
both internal and external APIs. Easily deploy NGINX Plus in
traditional environments to manage traffic for monolithic
applications, as well as in containers to manage traffic among
microservices in distributed applications.
"Our API management solution helps teams manage across the entire
lifecycle of all their APIs without compromising performance. Our unique
architecture is fast, flexible, and is well suited to the needs of both
legacy and modern applications, especially for microservices," said
Sidney Rabsatt, Vice President of Product Management at NGINX. "It saves
time, reduces complexity, and lowers the cost of managing APIs."
Key API management capabilities include:
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API definition and publication - Provides a simple and
intuitive interface to define APIs, manage upstream groups and backend
servers, route resources to upstreams, and publish the resulting API
definitions to NGINX Plus gateways.
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Authentication and authorization - Enables users to create and
manage API keys, validate JWT to authenticate API consumers, share
keys with API consumers, and import API keys from external systems.
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Rate limiting - Allows users to specify rate limits in order to
mitigate DDoS attacks and protect applications. Leverages the new
global rate limiting and clustering capabilities released in
NGINX Plus R17.
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Visibility - Enables faster troubleshooting with deep
visibility and critical insights into more than 200 advanced
performance and transaction metrics for the APIs published through
NGINX Plus API gateway instances.
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Multi-cloud support - Deploys on any public or private
cloud to manage multiple NGINX Plus API gateway instances operating
across a multi-cloud environment.
For an in-depth look and demo of the API Management Module for
NGINX Controller, attend our webinar.
To learn more or start your free trial, visit: https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-controller/
About NGINX, Inc.
NGINX, Inc. is the company behind the popular open source project
trusted by more than 350 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies
for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application
Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to
modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new,
microservices-based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and
McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resilience, and speed
innovation. NGINX investors include Blue Cloud Ventures, e.ventures,
Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, MSD Capital, NEA, Runa Capital, and
Telstra Ventures.
We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA (News - Alert), with our EMEA head office in
Cork, Ireland and APAC head office in Singapore. Learn more at https://www.nginx.com/ or
join the conversation by following @nginx on
Twitter (News - Alert).
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