What Is NGINX Unit? - Learn NGINX Unit with Zero Pain

NGINX Unit is a universal web app server – intended as a building block for any web architecture regardless of its complexity, from enterprise-scale deployments to your pet's home page. It is equally suited to simplifying modern microservices environments as it is to modernizing legacy and monolithic applications.

We've developed a whole course covering all of the ins and outs of NGINX Unit, how to install it, exploring the configuration api, writing your first hello world, web-server configuration, intro into unit languages modules and so much more.

This video goes over what is NGINX Unit?

Resources:
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What is NGINX Unit?

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What's New with NGINX Unit?

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:33 NGINX Unit solves a different problem
01:49 The web application stack is a complex ecosystem
03:27 There is a better way to manage your application stack
03:44 Web applications have many moving parts
04:39 Unit Configuration controls networking and runtime
06:13 NGINX Unit runs your entire microservices application
08:02 NGINX Unit runs apps across many languages

[MarkusEicher]

Hi there. Thanks for explaining the architecture a bit deeper. Appreciate it. Is it planned, to have the content mentioned in the intro added to this playlist? This would be awesome, because this would be a full-fledged Nginx Unit course and it would be so valuable to have these topics explained and demonstrated for beginners and even seasoned pros. But I can think you are busy as hell for sure, so please don't take this as a complaint. It would just be fantastic to have these topics in the playlist. Keep rocking it, folks.

[julien.roques]

I have been using nginx for 12 years now. I have watched this 3 times trying to understand what's new, and except the "more powerful router" it feels like you are describing the classic nginx, the way it has always been (routing requests and serving static files). Could you explain what is the difference between nginx unit and the classic nginx?

[OldKing]

This is amazing. I'm always pressing NGINX + Gunicorn[Uvicorn] together and was worried I was going to have to figure out a way to get NGINX to serve per user protected static files using Authentication Based on Subrequest. I also have a central authentication microservice so this looks like an easy way to query it first with the request and return a 401 early. My app stack simply becomes NGINX Unit. I'll be going through this tutorial picking out the Debian and Python bits. Thanks for making this!