Continuing Microsoft Azure’s dedication to empower our ISV companions and prospects to undertake and modernize their software of alternative and run within the cloud, we’re excited to announce normal availability (GA) of the NGINXaaS providing on Azure.
In facilitating the cloud transformation journey for cloud architects, builders, IT professionals, and enterprise resolution makers who’re all working in direction of their digital transformations, we’re increasing on our greater than a decade of partnership with F5, the corporate behind NGINX to supply a deeper integration of NGINX into the Azure ecosystem.
NGINX offers load balancing, visitors administration, and safety instruments for customers to configure and handle the extremely complicated make-up of the architectures visitors patterns on their cloud and on-premises environments.
“We are excited to expand our Azure ecosystem with the General availability of NGINX for Azure. This strategic partnership with F5 immediately brings together the power of Azure and NGINX’s application delivery expertise to give our developers and customers more native options on Azure.”—Julia Liuson President, Microsoft Developer Division.
Do extra with much less
Based on inputs from prospects within the Open Source world and different customers of the NGINX providing, we labored with F5 to simplify the infrastructure administration and supply a seamless expertise by integrating the deployment, billing, and assist of the NGINX answer on the Azure cloud platform, obtainable through the Azure Marketplace.
By taking the administration burden away from the consumer as a part of the managed providing, the client can now concentrate on the core components of their enterprise whereas the custodians of the NGINX and Azure providing convey our strengths to supply a completely managed, safe, and dependable NGINX providing on Azure.
The deep integration into the Azure Control airplane additionally offers one other layer of optimization by selling all the newest related options from the Azure Platform to be routinely obtainable to this service.
Deploying and managing load balancer and visitors supervisor on Azure
The service integrates the NGINX providing into the Azure Control airplane. Through this integration, prospects can provision a brand new NGINX service and configure their Azure sources to seamlessly prolong workloads to the cloud and ship safe and high-performance functions utilizing the acquainted and trusted load balancing answer. This offers the consumer consistency in efficiency and safety throughout their ecosystem through a one-click deployment. In addition, the purchasers can handle the entire superior visitors administration options they demand, together with JSON Web Token authentication and built-in safety, to call a number of.
Lift and shift from present deployments
The built-in providing makes it very straightforward emigrate software supply from on-premises to Azure cloud. Enterprises and customers can now carry and shift apps to Azure cloud seamlessly by bringing their very own or present configurations of NGINX and deploying them from the Azure portal or Marketplace. Users can then configure superior visitors administration and safety, leverage state-of-the-art monitoring capabilities, and port customized configurations.
Unified expertise
Build end-to-end visitors administration options with a unified expertise. This service offers the consumer consistency in efficiency and safety throughout their portfolio of on-premises and Azure cloud apps by utilizing the identical load balancing answer and configurations all over the place through the one-click step deployment.
Secure deployments
The capacity to regulate visitors through digital networks is a vital consideration for our prospects. With this integration, customers can seamlessly handle configurations between their very own digital community and the NGINX Cloud digital community through a customized answer leveraging service, Injection. This is additional complemented with unified billing for the NGINX service by means of Azure subscription invoicing.
Getting began with Azure Native NGINX Service:
Discovery and procuring: Azure prospects can discover the service listed on Azure Marketplace and evaluation the completely different buying plans supplied, and buy it immediately with single billing enabled.
Provisioning the NGINX sources: Within a number of clicks, you possibly can deploy NGINX service in your required subscription and datacenter areas together with your most well-liked plan.
In Azure Portal expertise: Configure the NGINX Networking elements:
Configuring logs and metrics: Customers can decide which Azure useful resource logs and metrics are despatched to the NGINX useful resource.
