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Cloudflare Introduces Advanced Load Balancing to Eliminate Hardware Dependency
Cloudflare recently unveiled significant advancements in its load balancing capabilities, aiming to eliminate the need for hardware-based solutions. The company’s latest enhancements integrate seamlessly with Cloudflare One, providing end-to-end private traffic flow support and WARP authenticated device traffic.
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Implementation of Zero-Configuration Service Mesh at Netflix
In a recent blog post, Netflix described why they engaged the Envoy community and Kinvolk to implement a new feature for Envoy, the open-source proxy developed by Lyft. This new feature called On-Demand Cluster Discovery helped Netflix to implement a zero-configuration service mesh.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of Azure Application Gateway for Containers
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Application Gateway for Containers - a new application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management product for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster. It extends Azure's Application Load Balancing portfolio and is a new offering under the Application Gateway product family.
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Traefik Hub Enables Simple and Secure Container Publishing
Traefik Labs have announced the general availability of Traefik Hub, a tool designed to allow admins to quickly and securely publish Kubernetes and Docker containers.
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Google Cloud Certificate Manager Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Certificate Manager, a service to acquire, manage, and deploy TLS certificates for use with Google Cloud workloads.
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Google Cloud Blocks Largest Layer 7 DDoS Attack
Google claims to have recently fended off the largest ever HTTPS-based distributed denial of service attack, which peaked at 46 million requests per second. According to the cloud provider, the DDoS attack was quickly detected and stopped at the edge of Google’s network, and the customer was not impacted.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Its Gateway Load Balancer in All Regions
Gateway Load Balancer is a fully-managed service enabling enterprises to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third-party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure. Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Gateway Load Balancer in all public regions, Azure China cloud regions, and Azure Government cloud regions.
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AWS Introduces Static IP Addresses for Application Load Balancer
Amazon recently announced that the Application Load Balancer supports AWS PrivateLink and static IP addresses by direct integration with the Network Load Balancer.
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AWS Announces Gateway Load Balancer
AWS Gateway Load Balancer is a new fully-managed network gateway and load balancer. The service is tailored to deploy, scale and manage third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection, prevention systems and deep packet inspection systems in the cloud.
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NGINX Releases Controller 3.0 with Major Redesign Providing Consolidated Application View
NGINX announced the release of NGINX Controller 3.0, their control-plane solution to manage the NGINX data plane. The 3.0 release sees a full redesign of Controller moving it into an "app-centric experience" that allows for interacting with the infrastructure at the application level. This includes a full configuration API, a role based self-service portal, and a built in certificate manager.
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NGINX Unit Adds Support for Reverse Proxying and Address-Based Routing
NGINX announced the release of versions 1.13 and 1.14 of NGINX Unit, its open-source web and application server. These releases include support for reverse proxying and address-based routing based on the connected client's IP address and the target address of the request.
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How Twitter Improves Resource Usage with a Deterministic Load Balancing Algorithm
Twitter recently shared the details of why their RPC framework Finagle implements a client-side load balancing using a deterministic aperture algorithm for their microservices architecture. Twitter ran different experiments but confirmed that with a deterministic approach, requests are better distributed, connections count reduces drastically, and they even need less infrastructure.
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NGINX Plus Release 18 Available with Support for Dynamic Certificate Loading
NGINX has released version 18 (R18) of NGINX Plus, their all-in-one load balancer, content cache, and web server. This release includes support for dynamic certificate loading, enhancements to their OpenID Connect implementation, and the ability to specify port ranges for virtual servers.
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NGINX Interview: Enterprise Adoption of Software Load Balancing, API Gateways, and Service Meshes
InfoQ recently sat down with Rob Whiteley, Sidney Rabsatt, Liam Crilly from NGINX, and discussed their views on the future of networking and data center communication. NGINX aims to be a “trusted advisor” and provide an “easy on-ramp” for enterprises looking to leverage software load balancers, ingress gateways, and service meshes, as is appropriate to their current technology landscape and goals.
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Nginx Plus R8 Brings Hardened HTTP/2 and Persistent Re-configuration API
The Release 8 of Nginx Plus has a hardened HTTP/2 implementation and a persistent re-configuration API.