It happened – an expired SSL certificate broke https security for the website! The Azure Web Job to automatically renew the quarterly LetsEncrypt SSL Certificate did not work (for a number of reasons, one being that an old subscription and deleted unused service principal’s information were still registered in the Application Settings for LetsEncrypt) and the website was now only avaible via http. Yikes!
Overview:
This series of 9 blog posts are suitable for cloud solution architects and software architects looking to integrate NGINX (pronounced en-juhn-eks) with Azure-managed solutions to improve load balancing, performance, security, and high availability for workloads. Software developers and technical managers will also understand how these technologies in the cloud have a direct impact on application development and application architecture for more cloud-native solutions. Load balancing provides scalability and a higher level of availability by distributing incoming network traffic efficiently across a group of backend servers, also known as a server pool or server cluster.
This series of blog posts provides a meaningful description of load-balancing options available natively from Microsoft Azure and the role NGINX can play in a comprehensive solution.
Even though the examples used are specific to Azure, these load balancing concepts and implementations using NGINX apply equally to other large public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean, and IBM Cloud along with their respective cloud platform–native load balancers.