Some Questions about NGINX and F5

[Owen Garrett]

Hi Lee,

I can add some suggestions to help you find out more.  We do try to keep the nginx mailing list for technical questions and announcements relating to NGINX open source; do DM me for further information.

    > 1) How does NGINX fit with F5 legacy solutions? For example, and I may be
    > wrong certain functions in BIG-IP seem to overlap some of the functions of
    > NGINX? Is it that BIG-IP is “more heavy duty?”

There is overlap, and it's not correct to think of BIG-IP as more heavy-duty.  NGINX can be equally or more capable.

Different teams (IT and Apps) have different expectations for the products they use.  BIG-IP and NGINX are complementary, and we often see both running together.  Paradoxically, sometimes duplication leads to better efficiency: https://www.nginx.com/blog/deploying-application-services-in-kubernetes-part-1/

    2) What happened with Heylu? I am not even sure what “Heylu” was supposed to
    > be. Any clarity on this?

Take a look at NGINX Controller: https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-controller

    3) I do not understand so well how NGINX and Docker work together – are they
    > complementary?

Docker is a way to package and share applications in containers.  NGINX is very commonly used as part of these lightweight, portable applications.

NGINX Ingress Controller https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress and NGINX Service Mesh https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-service-mesh are NGINX-based solutions for docker containers running on Kubernetes and related platforms.

Owen

On 16/11/2020, 17:38, "nginx on behalf of Sergey A. Osokin" <nginx-bounces at nginx.org on behalf of osa at freebsd.org.ru> wrote:

    EXTERNAL MAIL: nginx-bounces at nginx.org

    Hi Lee,

    hope you're doing well these days.

    Thanks for your questions in this public maillist.  In most cases these
    questions are related to the commercial version of NGINX - NGINX Plus.
    Follow that, I'd recommend to contact the NGINX Sales Team, 
    https://www.nginx.com/contact-sales/, to get more details about the products
    of interest.

    Thank you.

    --
    Sergey Osokin

    On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 12:20:31PM -0500, leeahaddad wrote:
    > 1) How does NGINX fit with F5 legacy solutions? For example, and I may be
    > wrong certain functions in BIG-IP seem to overlap some of the functions of
    > NGINX? Is it that BIG-IP is “more heavy duty?”
    > 2) What happened with Heylu? I am not even sure what “Heylu” was supposed to
    > be. Any clarity on this?
    > 3) I do not understand so well how NGINX and Docker work together – are they
    > complementary? I read a lot of material and saw videos, but I think I am
    > missing something that a quick discussion would help me get it. I think my
    > lack of understanding is also with Kubernetes vs Docker swarm topic.
    > I know there is something really exciting and big with NGINX and its
    > combination with F5 but I need some color to move my imagination into the
    > reality
    > 
    > Lee Haddad
    > 
    > Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,289987,289987#msg-289987
    > 
    > _______________________________________________
    > nginx mailing list
    > nginx at nginx.org
    > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
    _______________________________________________
    nginx mailing list
    nginx at nginx.org
    http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx