NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by darksoul » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 5:47 PM UTC

NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready
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Re: NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by oblio » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 6:27 PM UTC

I’m guessing this is meant for microservices and containers?

Edit: It is. I can’t figure out if it is completely new or of it shares code with Nginx “Classic”.

And another edit: They don’t seem to have support for dotnet core planned. Interesting.

Re: NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by geodel » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

Will be interesting to see how Java runs on this. Currently Spring boot is sucking up all oxygen in Java microservices space which is basically tomcat inside Spring container instead Spring in Tomcat container.

Re: NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by amq » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

I still don't understand what Unit is.

Is it more like Nginx or like Traefik?

Is it more a replacement for fastcgi or for php-fpm?

Re: NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by jasonjayr » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 6:48 PM UTC

amq wrote: post #4

I still don't understand what Unit is. Is it more like Nginx or like Traefik? Is it more a replacement for fastcgi or for php-fpm?

It looks like this is a replacement for uwsgi[1] -- which has a ton of features on it's own, and plugins for these languages and more ...

[1] https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re: NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by gondo » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 6:58 PM UTC

amq wrote: post #4

I still don't understand what Unit is. Is it more like Nginx or like Traefik? Is it more a replacement for fastcgi or for php-fpm?

here is a usecase with WordPress installation

[1] https://www.nginx.com/blog/installing-wordpress-with-nginx-u...

Re: NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by tmikaeld » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:46 PM UTC

Seems like the most benefit of it is together with NGINX+ which costs minimum 2500$/year/instance.

Re: NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by gondo » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:56 PM UTC

tmikaeld wrote: post #7

Seems like the most benefit of it is together with NGINX+ which costs minimum 2500$/year/instance.

why do you think that?

Re: NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by nathanielks » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 8:24 PM UTC

I'm struggling to understand the purpose of this, or why I would choose this over php-fpm. It seems to be competing with Docker as it isolates applications with cgroups, but if I'm already running docker, what's the point? Perhaps another layer of isolation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

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Post by nathanielks » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 9:00 PM UTC

oblio wrote: post #2

I’m guessing this is meant for microservices and containers? Edit: It is. I can’t figure out if it is completely new or of it shares code with Nginx “Classic”. And another edit: They don’t seem to have support for dotnet core planned. Interesting.

From what I can gather, nginx still sits in front of Unit and proxies requests to it