API Access and Identity Management: Why Should I Care? [EMEA]

Docker and Kubernetes are considered standard components when building and orchestrating applications today. Yet you’re still responsible for managing applications built with “traditional” tools. How do you meet the demands of new, microservices applications, while still maintaining the legacy, monolith ones?


As technologists, we value innovation and discovering new tools and solutions. This webinar does just that, but first we take a look back at how we got here. Join this webinar to learn:


•The history of current trends in computing - cloud, containerization, and Kubernetes

•How load balancing and network architecture have evolved from basic DNS to complex systems that support new development styles like CI/CD, A/B testing of code releases, and self service

•Challenges that come along with virtualization, distributed applications, and multi/hybrid cloud

•Solutions to reduce the complexity of enterprise application infrastructure, including a new platform from NGINX, now part of F5, that bridges the gap between traditional hardware and newer software solutions

Docker and Kubernetes are considered standard components when building and orchestrating applications today. Yet you’re still responsible for managing applications built with “traditional” tools. How do you meet the demands of new, microservices applications, while still maintaining the legacy, monolith ones?


As technologists, we value innovation and discovering new tools and solutions. This webinar does just that, but first we take a look back at how we got here. Join this webinar to learn:


•The history of current trends in computing - cloud, containerization, and Kubernetes

•How load balancing and network architecture have evolved from basic DNS to complex systems that support new development styles like CI/CD, A/B testing of code releases, and self service

•Challenges that come along with virtualization, distributed applications, and multi/hybrid cloud

•Solutions to reduce the complexity of enterprise application infrastructure, including a new platform from NGINX, now part of F5, that bridges the gap between traditional hardware and newer software solutions

Docker and Kubernetes are considered standard components when building and orchestrating applications today. Yet you’re still responsible for managing applications built with “traditional” tools. How do you meet the demands of new, microservices applications, while still maintaining the legacy, monolith ones?


As technologists, we value innovation and discovering new tools and solutions. This webinar does just that, but first we take a look back at how we got here. Join this webinar to learn:


•The history of current trends in computing - cloud, containerization, and Kubernetes

•How load balancing and network architecture have evolved from basic DNS to complex systems that support new development styles like CI/CD, A/B testing of code releases, and self service

•Challenges that come along with virtualization, distributed applications, and multi/hybrid cloud

•Solutions to reduce the complexity of enterprise application infrastructure, including a new platform from NGINX, now part of F5, that bridges the gap between traditional hardware and newer software solutions

Identity and Access Control play a vital role in your application modernisation story. In this webinar we look at why you should care about OpenID Connect and why you need to ensure that your API Management solution supports Identity Management. We will talk about why you need to manage identity and access control at the application gateway level, together with the benefits from a security, policy and governance standpoint.

The following topics will be covered in this webinar:

• Identity Management – the current landscape, open standards, and how these have evolved
• Access Management – achieving fine-grained control of API user privilege
• RBAC – Role Based Access Control of API Management resources
• Microgateways – Best practices for orchestration within containerized deployment models including Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift.
• Ingress Control – The relationship between the Kubernetes Ingress Controller/RedHat Openshift Router and API management.

Identity and Access Control play a vital role in your application modernisation story. In this webinar we look at why you should care about OpenID Connect and why you need to ensure that your API Management solution supports Identity Management. We will talk about why you need to manage identity and access control at the application gateway level, together with the benefits from a security, policy and governance standpoint.

The following topics will be covered in this webinar:

• Identity Management – the current landscape, open standards, and how these have evolved
• Access Management – achieving fine-grained control of API user privilege
• RBAC – Role Based Access Control of API Management resources
• Microgateways – Best practices for orchestration within containerized deployment models including Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift.
• Ingress Control – The relationship between the Kubernetes Ingress Controller/RedHat Openshift Router and API management.

Service mesh is one of the hottest emerging technologies. Even though it’s a nascent technology, many vendors have already released their implementation. But do you really need a service mesh?

Attend this webinar to learn about the levels of maturity on the journey to modernizing your apps using microservices, and the traffic management approaches best suited to each level. We’ll help you figure out if you really need a service mesh.

Join this webinar to learn:

•What a service mesh is

•About the maturity journey for app modernization

•When you really need a service mesh

•How to make an informed decision based on cost and complexity before adopting service mesh

This webinar is a chance to learn how the circuit breaker pattern is used in microservices applications. Fundamentally, the circuit breaker pattern in a microservice application is all about managing traffic to the different instances of your services. We utilize active health checks to monitor these instances, to help avoid catastrophic failure.

Join this webinar to learn:
- How the circuit breaker pattern works
- Why the circuit breaker pattern has become popular, especially for microservices apps
- How the circuit breaker pattern is implemented in Microservices Reference Architecture
- Why NGINX is particularly well-suited for supporting microservices apps

Presenters:
Chris Stetson, Chief Architect & Sr. Director, Microservices Engineering
Charles Pretzer, Technical Architect
Floyd Smith, Director, Content Marketing

The use of an API gateway and the move to microservices are two of the most important trends in application development. But are they similar, or different; complementary, or contradictory? In this webinar we discuss the advantages of an API gateway, the advantages of microservices development, and how and when they can work together.

Join this webinar to learn:
- More about the advantages of an API gateway
- More about the advantages of microservices
- Whether an API gateway approach works with different microservices network architectures, including service mesh
- How to reduce rework if your application needs to move from one network architecture to another

Infrastructure & Operations and DevOps teams have to grapple with many challenges as their enterprises’ APIs gain wide adoption both internally and externally, and the number of APIs and API gateways increases. APIs need to be managed in an efficient manner across their entire lifecycle, and API gateways need to be updated with the latest API policies. API management includes defining, publishing, documenting, securing, routing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and analyzing the usage of your APIs to assess their value. Those management activities must not degrade the performance of the API gateway itself, which is responsible for routing and mediating traffic.

That’s where NGINX Controller’s API Management Module comes in.

The NGINX Controller API Management Module combines the raw power and efficiency of NGINX Plus as an API gateway with new control‑plane functionality. The result is a simple user interface that offers powerful functionality for Infrastructure & Operations and DevOps teams to define, publish, secure, monitor, and analyze APIs.
Join the webinar to learn:
- How to manage API definitions and their component resources, define upstream groups and their backend servers, and route resources to upstreams
- How to boost developer productivity by enabling teams to deploy new APIs faster with environment‑specific, policy‑driven management
- How to mitigate DDoS attacks and protect your applications from being flooded with malicious or errant API calls by setting rate limits
- How you can meet and exceed SLAs by finding the root cause of performance issues and troubleshooting them quickly

Attend this webinar and learn how to manage the entire lifecycle of your APIs using NGINX Controller. This includes defining, publishing, securing, routing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and analyzing usage of your APIs to assess their value. Get an overview and demo of NGINX Controller’s API Management Module.

DevOps teams today are challenged with outplaying hackers, whose tools and practices have grown increasingly sophisticated. However, some of the most common problems in secure application development and deployment often stem from uncertainty about dev and ops responsibilities. Under pressure to build and deploy software quickly, it’s easy for one side to think the other has completed the necessary security tasks.

In his session, Rob Whiteley, VP of Marketing for NGINX at F5 will discuss the differing responsibilities of dev and ops teams that need to be clearly defined to ensure alignment on security.

This webinar will discuss the trends affecting security in DevOps, why security should be pushed further back to the development team, and practical advice on the roles, responsibilities, and metrics that dev and ops teams should implement.

If you deliver content over the internet to a global audience and care about performance, you're likely using a content delivery network. CDN is a popular use case for advertising, media, online gaming, commerce, mobile, healthcare, even government and education because users can access web pages and apps much faster. What you may not know is most major CDN providers use NGINX under the hood. Commercial CDN services can be expensive to scale, limited in fine-grain control and customization, and offer fewer performance optimizations that you would want. If your enterprise CDN bill is astronomically high, and you need more control and customizations, it will be more cost effective to build your own.

Watch this webinar to learn how a CDN works, when it makes sense to build your own CDN, and jump into a technical deep dive on how a CDN solution performs with NGINX Plus, with performance comparisons and a live demo.

In this webinar we will discuss how AWS and NGINX can complement each other to create highly scalable, high performance and secure web applications. We will cover the different ways that NGINX can integrate with AWS services such as NLB, Route53 and PrivateLink to add new layers of security and functionality to your high traffic website, streaming service or IOT system.

Join this webinar to learn
- How to simplify your stack with NGINX products
- The benefits of NGINX Plus vs hardware load balancers
- When to use NGINX vs AWS ELB Solutions
- How NGINX can integrate with different AWS services

AWS deploys code every 12 seconds. Fidelity, a large financial services corporation, has reduced release time from days to just 1-2 hours.

How did these enterprises achieve such agility? The obvious answer is embracing DevOps -- including agile processes, DevOps tool chains, and a culture of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).

But world-class companies go beyond surface-level DevOps adoption. They’ve embraced technologies that build on containers, microservices, and modern application architectures. Whether you’re “cloud native” or “webscale” or not, you can still learn lessons from companies that have paired DevOps with the right application infrastructure.

NGINX has experience working with the largest, most successful digital pioneers in building out modern application architectures. As one of the most widely deployed open source projects of all time, NGINX has a unique vantage point between the world of developers and operations.

In this webinar, we will cover

- A recap of why DevOps is critical to digital transformation
- Traditional vs modern application architectures -- people, process, and technology
- How to overcome application delivery challenges in a DevOps world
- Examples of enterprises delivering great digital experiences pairing DevOps with NGINX

As the cloud becomes supercharged in 2019 and beyond, so too will your networks. Tune in to hear from leading industry experts for a live discussion on the future of cloud networking in a hybrid world.

Topics to be covered include:
- Securing cloud-managed networks
- Understanding the ins and outs of public, private and hybrid cloud architectures
- Where WAN fits into your hybrid IT strategy

This live panel will be streamed directly from London. Join us from the comfort of your desk and get all your cloud questions answered!

Moderated by: Simon Ratcliffe, Cloud Industry Forum
Justin Day, CEO, Cloud Gateway
David Luke, Enterprise Solutions Architect, NGINX
Panelist to be announced

When it comes to your infrastructure, the buzzwords and technologies are abundant: IaaS, software-defined, composable, cloud, and more. What does the future hold for the cloud infrastructure market and for IT Ops and DevOps teams? How will digital transformation and security continue to play a key role?

Join this live panel discussion to answer these questions and more, and learn what should be top of mind for IT teams going into 2019 and beyond.

Topics include:
- Containers, Kubernetes and serverless - the next wave of IaaS?
- What is composable infrastructure and what does it mean for your data center, on-prem and in the cloud?
- Should software-defined infrastructures and SDDC's still be top of mind for your tech teams? Why or why not?
- Best practices for securing your network infrastructure

Moderator: Jeanne Morain, Digital Strategist, Author & Speaker, iSpeak Cloud
Panelists: Srikanth Balusani, CTO, MST Solutions, Don Cox, CISO, MEDNAX, Scott Goessling, CTO, Burstorm, and Rob Whiteley, CMO, NGINX

Learn how to adapt the core ideas in the classic 12-factor application model to a modern microservices architecture optimized for continuous delivery.

More specifically, join this webinar to learn:

- The history of the 12-factor app and the problems it solves
- Industry changes that have happened since the 12-factor app was introduced
- What each of the current 12 factors are
- How each of the 12 factors needs to be updated to fit microservice needs

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's I&O Tech Talk Series.

Data center hardware and configuration are on the outs as technologies such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) take shape. The world of manual processes and provisioning is disappearing before our eyes, and it's changing the way organizations are designed and modernized.

Tune into this roundtable panel discussion led by Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer, Apcera as they discuss the phenomenon of Infrastructure as Code and other emerging technologies, and how they are disrupting IT infrastructure and the traditional data center.

Moderator: Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer, Apcera
Panelists: Erik Ottem, Director of Product Marketing, Western Digital and Jeanne Morain, Digital Strategist, Author & Speaker, iSpeak Cloud, Karthik Krishnaswamy, Sr Product Marketing Manager, NGINX