NGINX and Red Hat

The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and NGINX solutions is an excellent choice for organizations with stringent security and compliance needs, such as government, healthcare, and finance. Together, we help you successfully deliver legacy and modern apps in any environment – avoiding costly infrastructure lock‑in.

Unique capabilities include:

• Security – JWT authentication and SSL offload, WAF options, FIPS and PCI compliance
• Resilience – Active health checks, supported high availability, real‑time monitoring
• Scalability – DNS‑based service discovery, key‑value store, clustering

More Resources:

• Blog: Achieving FIPS Compliance with NGINX Plus
• Blog: Achieving PCI DSS Compliance with NGINX App Protect
• Documentation: NGINX Plus

NGINX focuses on supporting enterprise users who require a high‑performance, cost‑effective, long‑term solution for DevOps‑compatible service delivery in OpenShift. NGINX Ingress Controller is flexible, powerful, easy-to-use, and can be quickly deployed alongside the default OpenShift router to open up advanced security, resilience, and scalability. Ideal for all environments – from dev testing to production – it turns your OpenShift clusters into enterprise‑grade application delivery powerhouses. Integrate security controls into your apps with NGINX App Protect and use F5 DNS Cloud Services to load balance across your clusters and migrate from OCP 3.x to 4.x.

Unique capabilities include:

• Security – JWT authentication and WAF options
• Resilience – Advanced health checks, traffic testing, redundancy and failover capabilities, Open Tracing support, real‑time metrics
• Scalability – Customizable traffic management, support for non‑HTTP protocols, dynamic elastic scaling, queueing

More Resources:

• Blog: Getting Started with the NGINX Ingress Operator on Red Hat OpenShift
• Datasheet: NGINX Plus Router for OpenShift
• GitHub repository: NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers

With many enterprises releasing applications weekly or even daily, automation is critical for consistent speed and reliability. Our certified collections for Ansible Automation Platform shorten release cycles by integrating NGINX products into your incident, business, and configuration pipelines. The result is an accurate, repeatable, external source of truth.

The NGINX Core collection provides you with an easy way to install and manage NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, and NGINX App Protect as part of your Ansible automation stack.

The NGINX Controller collection provides safety to your internal customers for self‑service configuration and management of NGINX Plus instances.

Unique capabilities include:

• Security – Protect and distribute traffic, manage access, rate limit, and more
• Resilience – Manage certificates, environments, locations, and application workspaces
• Scalability – Build your own fully supported NGINX automation pipelines

More Resources:

• Blog: Getting Started with the Ansible Collection for NGINX Controller
• Blog: Announcing the NGINX Core Collection for Ansible
• Ansible Galaxy: NGINX collections