Dear Sergey Osokin, Thank you very much for the kind response. That is enough to get me started.
*Thanks and Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail* On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 7:35 PM Sergey A. Osokin <o...@freebsd.org.ru> wrote: > Hi Ahmad, > > hope you're doing well these days. > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:54:05AM +0600, Ahmad Ismail wrote: > > I asked After Nginx Unit, Do we still need ASGI like Uvicorn, Hypercorn, > > Daphne etc <https://stackoverflow.com/q/69642063/1772898> > > > > There one comment confused me. The comment says: > > > > nginx unit is an ASGI compliant server; you're replacing > > > uvicorn/hypercorn/daphne/etc. with nginx unit instead. It's a choice > you > > > make just like you'd make using either of those three or other > alternatives. > > Well, unicorn/Hypercorn/Daphnie are Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface > (ASGI) servers, so it's possible to run an ASGI application with any of > them. > > It's also true that NGINX Unit is an ASGI server, so it's also possible to > run > the same ASGI application on top of NGINX Unit. > > > I am not understanding what it means. Does it mean, I have to install > both > > nginx and nginx unit where nginx unit is the replacement for uvicorn / > > hypercorn / daphne etc. Or, nginx unit alone can do what nginx + uvicorn > / > > hypercorn / daphne etc. does. > > An answer for the question how to run an application in an evnronment > definitely depends on an application and its architecture. The list of > questions here starts from the following: > > - does the application needs caching? > - does the application needs to work with FQDNs or IP addresses? > - does the application needs a session persistance? > - TLS termination on a frontend (NGINX) or backend (NGINX Unit)? > - load balancing > > and so on. > > > I asked the same question on FastAPI > > <https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/3128#issuecomment-947391963> > > github repo > > <https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/3128#issuecomment-947391963 > >. > > There one part of the answer is unclear to me. > > > > > But, but, you will probably need https anyway, I personally prefer some > > > proxy, I didn't even try Nginx Unit "way" of applying tls but there is > one > > > apparently. Nginx Ingress, traefik for k8s, nginx proxy manager for > swarm, > > > alone traefik docker image or full nginx, probably tens of other > solutions. > > > > What I understood is I need to do few more things after installing nginx > > unit. However, the above quote is not clear to me. Can anyone please > > explain what he meant by it. And do I need to install other stuff after > > installing nginx unit? > > It's easy to start to work with NGINX Unit, deploy an application and see > how it works. In case you need an additional functionality, it's possible > to extend that with NGINX in front. > > Hope it's clear. > > -- > Sergey Osokin > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > nginx@nginx.org > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx >
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