--- title: Best Nginx posts of 2022 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Nginx posts of 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/nginx/best-of/2022 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/nginx/best-of/2022 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Nginx posts of 2022 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Nginx posts of 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Nginx — 2022 1. 1 [](/posts/6-best-courses-to-learn-nginx-in-depth-9w-4swkcj "6 Best Courses to learn Nginx in depth") Article Medium · 4y 6 Best Courses to learn Nginx in depth Nginx is an open-source web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. Leading tech companies like Autodesk, GitLab, DuckDuckGo, Microsoft, IBM, Google, LinkedIn, Cisco, Twitter, Apple, and Intl all use Nginx. 83 2. 2 [](/posts/dockerize-a-mern-stack-app-for-production-with-security-in-mind-part-ii--bfssvokqw "Dockerize a MERN Stack app for Production with Security in Mind (Part II)") Article System Weakness · 4y Dockerize a MERN Stack app for Production with Security in Mind (Part II) This post is the 2nd part of a two part series that covers how to make a MERN stack application production-ready with security in mind. The first part of this series was more of a theoretical post to grasp the basic concepts of what we want to achieve. 70 3. 3 [](/posts/learn-nginx-and-its-basics-in-2022-wopj8vvtf "Learn Nginx and its basics in 2022") Article DEV · 5y Learn Nginx and its basics in 2022 In this article, I’ll walk through the basics of nginx , installation, and set up locally, setting up logs, and a few others. Nginx is a short form of engine x is an HTTP and reverse proxy server. It is heavily used as a load balancer and serves static files, sometimes even complete static websites. 66 1 4. 4 [](/posts/self-host-your-own-website-for-free-o7vfpc9xo "Self Host Your Own Website for Free") Article Quick Code · 4y Self Host Your Own Website for Free 58 3 5. 5 [](/posts/nginx-advanced-load-balancer-web-server-reverse-proxy-8gk46tww7 "NGINX: Advanced Load Balancer, Web Server, & Reverse Proxy") Article Community Picks · 4y NGINX: Advanced Load Balancer, Web Server, & Reverse Proxy Nginx is a web server that is capable of handling \~10k concurrent users or network load per second. It became the fastest available web server followed by Apache. Nginx can be used as a mail proxy, reverse proxy, HTTP cache, etc. This is where Nginx comes into play. 41 1 6. 6 [](/posts/1-dollar-devops-terraform-docker-nginx-u-z17k2hz "1 Dollar DevOps: Terraform + Docker + Nginx") Article AWS Tip · 4y 1 Dollar DevOps: Terraform + Docker + Nginx This blog post is for the new SRE or Cloud Developer who is hesitant to create an AWS account or GCP account because of the possibly incurred costs. 24 7. 7 [](/posts/docker-commands-beginners-should-know-ls5-pyzwb "Docker Commands Beginners Should Know") Article DZone · 4y Docker Commands Beginners Should Know Docker is an open-source platform for creating, deploying, and running containers. You can create your containers on your favorite operating system and deploy them anywhere. Let's look at the commands you need to know to manage Docker images and containers. 24 8. 8 [](/posts/how-to-build-a-web-app-with-multiple-subdomains-using-nginx-fam5wynle "How to build a web app with multiple subdomains using Nginx") Article LogRocket · 5y How to build a web app with multiple subdomains using Nginx In this guide, I will take you through the process of building a web app that supports multiple subdomains step-by-step. I will be using AWS EC 2, but you can use any cloud provider of your choice. You’ll need a domain name that you own, a public IP address for your server, and a database. 20 9. 9 [](/posts/6-steps-to-set-up-linux-server-with-nginx-docker-ssl-tw7-3qx-p "6 steps to set up linux server with Nginx Docker & SSL") Article Towards Dev · 5y 6 steps to set up linux server with Nginx Docker & SSL 6 steps to set up linux server with Nginx Docker & SSL Szymon Kolber. Nginx is an open source web server alternative for Apache. It will encrypt all incoming and outgoing requests what will allow accessing our application through HTTPS. After all like everything takes us enormous amount of time it turned out to be pretty damn simple. 19 10. 10 [](/posts/diagrams-as-code-the-complete-how-to-use-guide-a1vs3nqpp "Diagrams as Code: The Complete How-to-Use Guide") Article DZone · 4y Diagrams as Code: The Complete How-to-Use Guide Diagrams allows you to draw cloud system architecture in Python code. It supports major providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Oracle Cloud, etc. The main benefit of using this concept is that majority of the Diagrams as Code tools can be scripted. 18 1 11. 11 [](/posts/load-balancing-pattern-chop7m9hw "Load Balancing Pattern") Article DZone · 4y Load Balancing Pattern A load balancer is a traffic manager that distributes incoming client requests across all servers that can process them. The pattern helps us realize the full potential of cloud computing by minimizing the request processing time and maximizing capacity utilization. The algorithm assumes that the application is stateless and each request from the client can be handled in isolation. 14 1 12. 12 [](/posts/setup-nginx-for-load-balancer-pbcm94jhb "Setup NGINX For Load Balancer") Article DEV · 5y Setup NGINX For Load Balancer Set up nginx loadbalancing on your VPS. Use the nginx upstream module to set up a round robin load balancer. Nginx uses a round-robin algorithm by default if no other method is defined. The least connections method directs the server with the least active connections at that time. 14 1 13. 13 [](/posts/scaling-a-node-js-application-tnjnyn4cw "Scaling a Node JS Application") Article DZone · 4y Scaling a Node JS Application Software scalability is an attribute of a tool or a system to increase its capacity and functionalities based on its users’ demands. Scalability can happen in two ways either horizontal or vertical scaling. In this blog, we will mainly focus on horizontal scaling and we will build up a small Node JS application. 13 14. 14 [](/posts/run-nginx-in-a-docker-container-using-pre-generated-ssl-certificate-from-letsencrypt-db9a4-ckq "Run Nginx in a Docker Container using pre-generated SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt") Article AWS Tip · 4y Run Nginx in a Docker Container using pre-generated SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt Run Nginx in a Docker Container using pre-generated SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt. Make sure you replace references to “yourdomain.com’s” with the name of the actual domain for your server. 12 15. 15 [](/posts/kubernetes-tutorial-for-beginners-basic-concepts-and-examples-poi0n50mc "Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners – Basic Concepts and Examples") Article Spacelift · 4y Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners – Basic Concepts and Examples Kubernetes is an open-source system that automates container deployment tasks. It was originally developed at Google but is now maintained as part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) In this beginners guide, you’ll learn how to get started running your own containerized solutions. Kubelet is responsible for pulling container images and starting containers in response to scheduling requests. 11 16. 16 [](/posts/how-to-build-and-run-next-js-applications-with-docker-compose-nginx-julldfnxv "How to Build and Run Next.js Applications with Docker, Compose, & NGINX") Article Docker · 4y How to Build and Run Next.js Applications with Docker, Compose, & NGINX Using Next.js can boost deployment efficiency, accelerate time to market, and help attract web users. We’ll also cover key processes and helpful practices for serving static content. Leveraging A/B testing to create tailored user experiences. You can customize your client-side code to change your app’s appearance, and ultimately the end-user experience. 11 17. 17 [](/posts/understanding-load-balancing-nginx-ft-jethalal--suvkqrxqh "Understanding Load Balancing!! (NGINX) ft. Jethalal.") Article Hashnode · 4y Understanding Load Balancing!! (NGINX) ft. Jethalal. NGINX is an open-source programming language. NGINX was developed by Google. Even Netflix uses NGinX. The code is available for download from the GitHub repository. For more information on NGINZ, visit: http://www.nginx.org/en/latest. 11 18. 18 [](/posts/create-docker-nginx-image-and-push-to-aws-ecr-5-i1hgya7 "Create Docker NGINX Image and Push to AWS ECR") Article Dev Genius · 4y Create Docker NGINX Image and Push to AWS ECR In this scenario, we were asked to use Nginx to deploy our website. We will pull the latest version of Nginx from the Docker registry. Next, we will create our Dockerfile & index.html file in the same directory. 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