NGINX as an API Gateway

NGINX handles a third of all websites on the internet. Most people are using a fraction of what it can do.

Properly configured, NGINX does everything a microservices API gateway needs — routing, load balancing, rate limiting, SSL termination, caching, and security hardening — without the complexity, the vendor lock-in, or the cost of dedicated gateway products. The tool you already have is more capable than the tool you're considering paying for.

NGINX as an API Gateway takes you from a fresh installation to a production-hardened gateway, with complete, production-ready configuration examples in every chapter. Not simplified illustrations of what the config could look like — actual configurations that handle edge cases, security requirements, and real-world deployment patterns you can adapt and deploy today.

This book is for you if you are building or operating microservices and need a reliable, performant API gateway, you are evaluating NGINX against Kong, Envoy, Traefik, or managed cloud gateways, or you are migrating from the Ingress NGINX Controller to the Kubernetes Gateway API.

Read a chapter. Adapt the config. Deploy it.

The gateway you need is already installed. This book shows you how to use it.