SSL Acceleration or Offloading with Nginx

[Sergey A. Osokin]

Hi,

hope you're doing well.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 10:01:35AM -0400, blason wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> I wanted to know the possibilities with Nginx  SSL offloading to separate
> CPU card or any other hardware? How do I achieve better performance with
> Nginx SSL offloading? Do I need to go with more CPU cores? or dedicated card
> or any other mechanism?
> 
> Can someone please suggest?

Here's some basic optimizations can be done with nginx [1].

It's also possible to use ssl_engine [2] directive to define the name
of the hardware SSL accelerator.

References:
1. https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html#optimization
2. https://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#ssl_engine

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Sergey A. Osokin