Bring Modern Apps to Life with the F5 NGINX Application Platform

From digital‑only banks to telemedicine, the COVID‑19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation efforts across the globe. Ensuring successful outcomes for customers and exceptional customer experiences are the key drivers behind these efforts. How can enterprises achieve this North Star? By focusing on the underlying technology that powers these experiences – specifically their applications and application delivery platform. Building a foundational platform that provides self‑service, automation, and insights using AI and machine learning is crucial for modern applications.

Tune in to hear NGINX EVP, Gus Robertson, discuss how enterprises are building resilient, secure, and scalable platforms that deliver developer agility and operational agility to power their high‑performance, adaptive modern applications.

Featuring: Gus Robertson
Duration: 25 min

Audi’s Kubernetes Competence Centre conceived Kubika O as a cloud‑independent Kubernetes platform operating as a seamless application environment. It is underpinned by RedHat OpenShift technology. The big challenge ahead of launch was how to secure the platform. Audi knew it needed a proven WAF solution with certified, frictionless OpenShift interoperability. Due to the size and time limitations of the core team, it also required access to robust, 24/7 technical support.

Join Sebastian Kister, Team Lead for the Kubernetes Competence Centre at Audi, to hear how the team solved this challenge, delivered a proof of concept, and drove genuine transformation at the VW group.

Featuring: Sebastian Kister and Rajiv Kapoor
Duration: 20 min

Software for financial services needs to deliver high performance without compromising stability and reliability.

Join this session to learn from Jaspal Singh, Director of Global Web Operations, how BlackRock is modernizing its web platform by leveraging NGINX as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway in cloud‑native environments.

Featuring: Jaspal Singh
Duration: 20 min

The growing complexity of building, deploying, and managing modern applications can be daunting. The NGINX team at F5 is focused on empowering application developers, DevOps, SecOps, NetOps, and Platform Engineering teams with the open source tool sets they need to get started, and enterprise capabilities to scale their applications.

Join this session for a preview of the NGINX product roadmap from Rob Whiteley, VP and GM, NGINX, who describes our plans to help you build applications that grow, shrink, heal, and defend themselves.

Featuring: Rob Whiteley
Duration: 20 min

Kubernetes has exploded as an industry‑standard layer for application deployment. In 2016 Mark Church started his container journey at Docker Inc and had a front row seat to all the changes it created. Now he’s involved in creating the standards that define container networking. In this session Mark explores how Kubernetes has impacted the service mesh ecosystem and offers his predictions for the future of application networking.

Featuring: Mark Church
Duration: 20 min

The application modernization imperative is very real for companies today. Challenges abound, but real success is achievable only with an open platform that enables full application development, deployment, and operations. The result? Increases in application developer productivity and IT infrastructure teams’ efficiency, lower cost of operations, and faster payback on investments.

Join this session to hear Red Hat CTO Chris Wright explain current challenges and share his outlook on the future, including why he believes OpenShift and Kubernetes can help developers deliver applications at the speed demanded today.

Featuring: Chris Wright
Duration: 15 min

Before you can get your new application out the door, you need to ensure that it has what it needs to run well, stay up and available, and remain secure. Enter NGINX!

Join this session to learn how to begin your application delivery journey with open source tools that start you on the right path. Then see how, when the time is right, it’s easy to transition to NGINX enterprise‑grade services with their advanced capabilities, and achieve visibility into all your deployed instances.

Featuring: Liam Crilly and Tom Gamull
Duration: 25 min

As you scale your apps and APIs, you also need to deploy and manage NGINX instances at scale. How do you configure and monitor NGINX load balancers? How do you define, secure, manage, and monitor API traffic?

Join this demo session to learn how to manage NGINX and achieve full API lifecycle management using NGINX Controller.

Featuring: Karthik Krishnaswamy, Ken Araujo and Ken Bauernfreund
Duration: 25 min

Gone are the days when you could simply bolt on security late in the application delivery lifecycle. In today’s world, security must be an integral part of any DevOps delivery pipeline.

In this session, we demo how NGINX App Protect WAF and DoS solutions integrate into your workflow without adding friction.

Featuring: Chris Witeck and Daniel Edgar
Duration: 25 min

Modern application architectures and microservices can seem a complex and hard to maintain, but that doesn’t have to be the case.

This demo provides an early look at our modern application architecture, which is easy to deploy on various infrastructure platforms and to scale out globally. We highlight partner technologies that have their roots in open source and are leaders in their spaces.

Featuring: Damian Curry and Elijah Zupancic
Duration: 25 min

When you’re new to Kubernetes, your highest priorities are probably learning how to build microservices apps and get visibility into their health.

Join this session to learn how to serve multiple polyglot apps with NGINX Unit and get insight into their performance with NGINX Ingress Controller.

Featuring: Amir Rawdat and Jenn Gile
Duration: 25 min

When services in a Kubernetes environment exchange sensitive data like passwords and credit card numbers, you must implement end‑to‑end encryption so bad actors can’t access it.

In this session, we show how to secure the edge with NGINX Ingress Controller, set up secure access control between services with NGINX Service Mesh, and use both products to secure egress traffic with mTLS.

Featuring: Aidan Carson and Jenn Gile
Duration: 25 min

On January 21, 2020, the WHO declared a Global Health Emergency, and by March 1 travel bans and lockdowns began. Cities around the world became epicenters for trial and perseverance.

Learn how NGINX and Creative Technologist Ben Chaykin created an interactive art installation using a modern application powered by NGINX Open Source to bring light back to their community. We hope to inspire you to do the same!

Featuring: Ben Chaykin and Kevin Jones
Duration: 20 min

No matter how many different languages and frameworks you are using in a container, NGINX Unit takes care of the process scheduling. Even better, Unit comes with its own production‑grade HTTP interface.

In this session, we show how Unit’s powerful tooling enables you to decouple incoming HTTP traffic from your apps (Layers 4 and 7), making it easy to enable and configure things like TLS encryption.

Featuring: Elijah Zupancic and Timo Stark
Duration: 30 min

Class is now in session! This session covers everything you need to get started with NGINX App Protect as well as NGINX’s latest security offering, NGINX App Protect DoS.

Prerequisites: None

Featuring: Alessandro Fael Garcia
Duration: 30 min

An Ingress controller is the ideal way to expose your containerized apps to the Internet, but did you know it can also play a powerful role in your traffic management stack?

In this session, we go over the basics of Kubernetes Ingress, discuss the Ingress controller landscape, and detail the capabilities an Ingress controller must have to be called production‑grade.

Featuring: Brian Ehlert and Jenn Gile
Duration: 30 min

Service mesh adoption is growing rapidly, but adopting a mesh too soon – or selecting the wrong mesh! – can add complexity that hampers success.

Attend this session to learn how to determine whether you’re ready for a mesh and how to choose a mesh that’s right for your apps.

Featuring: Jenn Gile and Kate Osborn
Duration: 30 min