NGINX Plus

Score8.6 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

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What is NGINX Plus?

NGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.

Categories & Use Cases

Open-source standards compliance
Support for open-source standards like J2EE
Category average: 8.3
Administration and management
Ease of management via administration console
Category average: 7.7
Installation
Ease of download and installation
Category average: 8.4

Security management
Integrated security management for applications
Category average: 8.5
Application server performance
Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics
Category average: 8.6
IDE support
Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs
Category average: 7.3

Maverick Lim

Senior System Analyst in Information Technology at Synapxe (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently we are doing assessment on NGINX Plus for our centralise APIGW it acts as a single entry point for applications or system, making it easier to manage traffic, enforce policies, and improve scalability and reliability of backend service.

Pros

APIGW
Policy Enforcement
Centrally Manage API Traffic

Cons

There is no User interface

Return on Investment

We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Apigee Edge

Vinnie Chhabra View profile

IT Engineer in Information Technology at Medallia (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our Tier 1 applications are all behind NGINX Plus - this includes Jira, Confluence, ADmanager, etc. It's been a great tool for access, speed and security wise. We first used Nginx and moved to NGINX Plus 3 years ago in order to get Support as well as the built in modules or advanced load balancing.

Pros

Ease of use
Secure access to our applications with allow lists
Fast changes

Cons

An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
GUI tool... might already be one available

Return on Investment

All positives - keeping our Tier 1 applications secure
All positives - keeping our Tier 1 applications available with HA/load balancing
All Positives - keeping our Tier 1 applications accessible super fast

Usability

Alternatives Considered

HAProxy Enterprise and NetScaler

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, GitHub, GitHub Copilot

Verified User

Contributor in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NGINX Plus is our primary load balancing solution. We leverage automation through GitHub to manage the platforms.

Pros

Seamless integration
Ease of use
Scalable

Cons

Monitoring through a centralized platform, I believe this is a new offering but it should've been part of the original offering

Return on Investment

We have been able to reduce our physical footprint in our data centers by going VM and leveraging NGINX Plus for our load balancing solution

Usability

Nishant Shah

Senior Analyst IS in Engineering at Analog Devices (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are Using NGINX Plus for applications load balance, application performances. Most use cases are HTTP/s load balancing and TCP load balancing. We are satisfied with the product as of now. We are expanding our use cases with Nginx Plus by using NGINX Plus as a CDN. That is one of the main reason I am on this App World event. I found an event helpful and get familiar with F5 other product. Thanks!

Pros

Load balancing
Caching
App security
Boost App performance

Cons

Add as a CDN product
Enhance active monitoring dashboard

Return on Investment

More uptime for business critical applications
Less overhead for administrator to maintain the applications

Alternatives Considered

Riverbed AppResponse

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira Product Discovery, JFrog Artifactory, Jama Connect

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using NGINX Plus as a livestreaming distribution model with publisher, worker and load balancer nodes.

We needed to deliver video content to all users in our organization.

Pros

Publishing
Ingest
Load-balancing

Cons

The Instance Manager setup is not that simple and would love to have it simplified (all required modules in that one single rpm file)
that adaptive bitrate is automatically configured
that easier telemetry and analytics can be done

Return on Investment

We were able to deliver seminars and townhalls to all users in the organization
We were able to do livestreaming across our multiple office sites
Our staff were able to enjoy streaming all the way to their desk

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Open-source standards compliance

Administration and management

Installation

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Security management

Application server performance

IDE support

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