A comprehensive guide and implementation for adding active health check capabilities to Nginx Open Source. Traditionally a commercial Nginx Plus feature, this repository provides step-by-step instructions to compile Nginx with the upstream_check module, configure health monitoring, and optimize for production environments.
Nginx Open Source with Active Health Check Module + Nginx UI - A free alternative to Nginx Plus active health checks, featuring a web-based management interface.
Free, open-source NGINX load balancer with active health checks using Docker. Built with nginx_upstream_check_module - no NGINX Plus required. Proactively monitors backend servers and automatically routes traffic only to healthy instances.
Production-ready High Availability RKE2 Kubernetes cluster on AWS using Terraform. Features 3 control plane nodes with embedded etcd, 3 worker nodes, NLB for API HA, Cilium CNI, multi-AZ deployment, and automated cluster bootstrapping