NGINX Masterclass

# **Book Description** Build, secure, optimize, and manage high-performance web infrastructure with NGINX. **NGINX Masterclass** is a practical, step-by-step guide for developers, system administrators, DevOps learners, cloud engineers, and IT professionals who want to use NGINX confidently in real-world environments. Whether you are hosting a website, deploying backend applications, configuring HTTPS, building a reverse proxy, or setting up a custom load balancer, this book gives you the clear guidance needed to work with NGINX professionally. Inside this book, you will learn how web servers handle internet traffic, how to install and manage NGINX on Linux systems, how to structure configuration files, and how to host static websites with clean server blocks. You will also discover how to route requests with location blocks, place backend applications behind NGINX, configure SSL/TLS certificates, redirect HTTP to HTTPS, and apply practical security headers. A major focus of **NGINX Masterclass** is load balancing. You will learn how to create upstream server groups, distribute traffic using round-robin, weighted balancing, least connections, and IP hash methods, and design more reliable traffic flow with failover settings, backup servers, timeouts, retry behavior, and deployment strategies such as blue-green and canary releases. The book also covers essential production topics including caching, compression, performance tuning, security hardening, logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Each concept is explained in a practical way, with configuration examples and real server workflows that help you understand not only what to do, but why it matters. By the end of this book, you will be able to configure NGINX as a web server, reverse proxy, HTTPS gateway, performance layer, and custom load balancer for modern websites and applications. **NGINX Masterclass** is ideal for anyone ready to move beyond basic setup and build reliable, secure, and production-ready NGINX infrastructure.