NGINX (pronounced "engine x" or "en-jin-eks") is the world's most popular Web Server, high performance Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy, API Gateway and Content Cache.

NGINX ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. Originally written by Igor Sysoev and distributed under the 2-clause BSD License.

NGINX is free and open source software, distributed under the terms of a simplified 2-clause BSD-like license. Enterprise distributions, commercial support and training are available from F5, Inc.

## How it works

NGINX is installed software with binary packages available for all major operating systems and Linux distributions. Please refer to the full NGINX documentation for detailed information on installing, building, configuring, debugging, and more.

## Other NGINX Projects

- NGINX JavaScript (njs) extends nginx functionality with an ECMAScript-compatible interpreter for HTTP and Stream modules.

- NGINX Ingress Controller connects Kubernetes apps and services with rock solid request handling, auth, self-service CRDs, and easy debugging.

- NGINX Gateway Fabric provides L4 and L7 routing capabilities in Kubernetes, implementing the Gateway API using NGINX as the data plane.