Nginx on Experiment, Fail, Learn, Repeat

Nginx as API Gateway - focusing on auth_request directive

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On virtual machine How to “protect” api requests https://www.nginx.com/blog/deploying-nginx-plus-as-an-api-gateway-part-1/

Mostly is the auth_request directive

Microservices are a software architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled, independently deployable services. Each service in a microservices architecture represents a specific business capability and communicates with other services through well-defined APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). These services are designed to be small, focused, and can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. Its a somewhat common architectural pattern that many companies go to when it comes to scaling out their development teams to build out their product.

Bus Arrival App - Singapore

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This is a quick sample tool to retrieve bus arrivals in Singapore. In order to use it, we would need to find for the Bus Stop ID or Bus Stop Code from where we’re taking the bus from. After keying it, it would fetch the records from LTA Datamall’s real time bus arrival API and present those records in this tool.

Basic SSL Setup - server and client SSL certificate setup

Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Install nginx on the instance. We would also probably need to install vim as well to make it changes on nginx configuration.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y nginx vim
sudo su
mkdir -p /etc/nginx/ssl
cd /etc/nginx/ssl

Create the following file in ca.config. The following ca configuration is used to create and configure SSL certifications

Using nginx to serve as ingress to multiple servers

Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This is a little experiment to see how this would work; in the case where we have multiple Go binaries with multiple web applications. If we wanted to expose this via a single http endpoint rather than providing a whole multitude of web endpoints.