WEBVTT 00:00.140 --> 00:00.560 Hey, everyone. 00:00.560 --> 00:01.510 And welcome back. 00:01.520 --> 00:06.980 Now in today's video, we will look into various different approaches that we have available to install 00:06.980 --> 00:08.330 and configure enginex. 00:08.330 --> 00:14.240 And once we understand that, then in the subsequent videos we look into how we can install Nginx in 00:14.240 --> 00:15.170 our own server. 00:15.200 --> 00:21.200 Now one important part to note here is that Enginex supports multiple different installation methods. 00:21.200 --> 00:26.000 The recommended one is you install Nginx directly on a Linux server. 00:26.000 --> 00:30.860 You also have a Windows based compatibility which is a beta based installation. 00:30.860 --> 00:32.720 So this is not at all recommended. 00:32.720 --> 00:39.080 You can also make use of Docker for configuring and installing Nginx provided that you are very familiar 00:39.080 --> 00:40.160 with Dockers. 00:40.190 --> 00:42.830 Now installing Nginx is very simple. 00:42.830 --> 00:50.060 All you need is you need a Linux server or a Linux virtual machine and then you install Nginx as a software 00:50.060 --> 00:50.990 on top of it. 00:51.020 --> 00:57.050 Now for this course we will primarily be using the Linux operating system for our Enginex practicals. 00:57.050 --> 01:03.030 And this is something that you will also see in most of the organizations that are implementing Nginx 01:03.030 --> 01:05.460 where they have a Linux based virtual machine. 01:05.460 --> 01:08.610 And on top of that we have the Nginx that is available. 01:08.610 --> 01:14.130 So one of the prerequisite here is that you need to have a Linux based VM. 01:14.130 --> 01:20.310 So discussing about how you can create a new Linux virtual machine for your testing environment, there 01:20.310 --> 01:22.920 are two primary methods that you can use. 01:22.920 --> 01:26.760 First one is using the VMware Workstation or VirtualBox. 01:26.760 --> 01:30.300 So a virtualization software as a overview. 01:30.300 --> 01:33.720 Or second one is you can directly launch a new server in cloud. 01:33.720 --> 01:38.460 So let's look into the approach one which makes use of a virtualization products. 01:38.460 --> 01:42.690 So basically in this approach you install various virtualization tools. 01:42.690 --> 01:48.810 It can be VMware Workstation, it can be VirtualBox, etcetera, directly on top of your laptop. 01:48.810 --> 01:52.320 Then you go ahead and create a new Linux based virtual machine. 01:52.320 --> 01:57.810 And once you have a Linux based virtual machine available on top of that you can install Nginx. 01:57.810 --> 02:03.360 So although this is good, but I would not really recommend it primarily because not only this will 02:03.360 --> 02:08.160 slow down your laptop if you do not really have a good hardware on top of it. 02:08.160 --> 02:11.880 And second is it can be also a little time consuming. 02:11.910 --> 02:16.860 The second recommended approach is to make use of a cloud service provider. 02:16.860 --> 02:22.860 So in this case you can choose a cloud service provider, whichever you are comfortable with, it can 02:22.860 --> 02:26.370 be AWS, Azure, GCP, Digitalocean, etcetera. 02:26.370 --> 02:32.910 Once you select the cloud provider, you can create a new server on top of it based on Linux, to be 02:32.910 --> 02:35.160 more precise, based on CentOS. 02:35.160 --> 02:41.700 And once you have a new server available, then you can directly go ahead and install Nginx on top of 02:41.700 --> 02:42.030 it. 02:42.060 --> 02:44.250 Now you also have a approach three. 02:44.250 --> 02:47.670 This is something that I would not really recommend to begin with. 02:47.700 --> 02:53.130 However, once you are very comfortable with Nginx and you are also comfortable with Docker, you can 02:53.130 --> 02:56.850 go ahead and launch a Nginx container based on Docker. 02:56.850 --> 03:02.490 So you can install Docker workstation in your laptop and you can directly go ahead and launch a Nginx 03:02.490 --> 03:03.780 based Docker container. 03:03.780 --> 03:09.150 So let me quickly go ahead and give you a glimpse of the approaches that we were discussing. 03:09.150 --> 03:14.880 Now, one of the approaches and also the recommended one is you go ahead and create a new server in 03:14.880 --> 03:19.200 a specific cloud service provider and you install Nginx on top of it. 03:19.230 --> 03:25.500 Now currently I have a test server that we are using for our demo environment and let me quickly show 03:25.500 --> 03:25.950 you. 03:25.950 --> 03:33.150 So currently if I do a systemctl status Nginx you currently have Nginx that is up and running. 03:33.150 --> 03:36.330 So this is on top of a CentOS based server. 03:36.450 --> 03:39.000 Now we were also discussing about Docker. 03:39.000 --> 03:45.450 So currently within my laptop I have a Docker workstation that is installed and currently I have one 03:45.450 --> 03:46.410 Nginx image. 03:46.410 --> 03:51.840 And within the container you see I have one container of Nginx that is running over here. 03:51.840 --> 03:58.680 So within the web browser, if I just type localhost followed by port of 80, if I press enter, you 03:58.680 --> 04:00.930 basically see a default nginx page. 04:00.930 --> 04:07.170 So this nginx is directly served through Docker installed on my laptop and the last method that we were 04:07.170 --> 04:10.020 discussing is to make use of a virtualization product. 04:10.020 --> 04:16.170 So this is good to begin with, but at a later stage when we cover a lot of interesting topics related 04:16.170 --> 04:22.470 to high availability, related to reverse proxy, etcetera, you need to have multiple virtual machines 04:22.470 --> 04:25.890 within your laptop and that will seriously slow down your laptop. 04:25.890 --> 04:30.450 And this is one of the reasons why we recommend to make use of a cloud service provider. 04:30.480 --> 04:35.730 Choose anyone you are comfortable with, launch a server and install Nginx directly on top of it. 04:35.730 --> 04:40.890 And once you are completed with your learning, you can just go ahead and directly delete the server 04:40.890 --> 04:42.900 to avoid any unexpected costs. 04:43.020 --> 04:48.900 So this is the high level overview on various approaches that you can use to create a Linux VM. 04:48.900 --> 04:53.220 Once you have a Linux VM available, you can install Nginx directly on top of it. 04:53.220 --> 04:55.380 So that's the high level overview. 04:55.380 --> 04:57.780 And with this we'll conclude today's video.