Lab5-6 updates to SE branch

labs/lab5/final/upstreams.conf

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 upstream nginx_cafe {         # Upstream block, the name is "nginx_cafe"
 
     # Uncomment the zone directive below to add metrics to the Dashboard
-    # zone nginx_cafe 256k;
+    zone nginx_cafe 256k;
 
     # Load Balancing Algorithms supported by NGINX
     # - Round Robin (Default if nothing specified)
@@ -15,18 +15,18 @@ upstream nginx_cafe {         # Upstream block, the name is "nginx_cafe"
     # - Hash (Any generic Hash)     
 
     # Uncomment for Least Time Last Byte algorithm
-    # least_time last_byte;
+    least_time last_byte;
 
     # From Docker-Compose:
     server web1:80;
     server web2:80;
     server web3:80;
 
     # Uncomment for Cookie persistence
-    # sticky cookie srv_id expires=1m domain=.example.com path=/;
+    sticky cookie srv_id expires=1m domain=.example.com path=/;
 
 
     # Uncomment for keepalive TCP connections to upstreams
-    # keepalive 16;
+    keepalive 16;
 
 }

labs/lab5/readme.md

@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ Different backend applications may benefit from using different load balancing t
     `wrk` load generation tool is a docker container that will download and run, with 4 threads, at 200 connections, for 1 minute:
 
     ```bash
-    docker run --name wrk --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d1m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://$NAME-nginx-plus/coffee
+    docker run --name wrk --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d1m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://nginx-plus/coffee
 
     ```
 
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ Different backend applications may benefit from using different load balancing t
 
     ![Cafe with Keepalive](media/lab5_cafe-perf-keepalive.png)
 
-    >But this points out a very important concept to be aware of: NGINX uses HTTP/1.0 to all upstreams by default.  HTTP/1.0 is limited to a single TCP connection for a single HTTP object on the web page.  If you have hundreds of web objects, you will need hundreds of TCP connections.  This is a large waste of time and resources, so adding TCP Keepalives and HTTP/1.1 will make a significant improvement in performance in most cases.
+    >**But this points out a very important concept to be aware of: NGINX uses HTTP/1.0 to all upstreams by default.**  HTTP/1.0 is limited to a single TCP connection for a single HTTP object on the web page.  If you have hundreds of web objects, you will need hundreds of TCP connections.  This is a large waste of time and resources, so adding TCP Keepalives and HTTP/1.1 will make a significant improvement in performance in most cases.
 
     <br/>
 
@@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ Different backend applications may benefit from using different load balancing t
 1. For a fun test, hit it again with `wrk`...what do you observe?  Do admin weights help or hurt performance?  
 
     ```bash
-    docker run --name wrk --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d1m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://$NAME-nginx-plus/coffee
+    docker run --name wrk --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d1m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://nginx-plus/coffee
 
     ```
 
@@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ Different backend applications may benefit from using different load balancing t
 1. You should now have `4 workers`, `least_time last_byte` and `keepalive` **enabled**.  Run the `wrk` load generation tool again. **CRANK IT UP!**
 
     ```bash
-     docker run --name wrk --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d1m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://$NAME-nginx-plus/coffee
+     docker run --name wrk --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d1m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://nginx-plus/coffee
     ```
 
     Within the `$NAME-nginx-plus` container, run `top` to see the NGINX Workers at work.  Should look something like this:
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ Different backend applications may benefit from using different load balancing t
 1. Run the `wrk` load generator again for 1 minute.
 
     ```bash
-     docker run --name wrk --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d1m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://$NAME-nginx-plus/coffee
+     docker run --name wrk --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d1m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://nginx-plus/coffee
     ```
 
    After the 1 minute run of `wrk` load generation tool has finished, you should see a Summary of the statistics.  It should look similar to this:
@@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ With NGINX, there are several configuration options for this, but in this next l
 
 1. If you need to find the `answers` to the lab exercises, you will find the final NGINX configuration files for all the exercises in the `labs/lab5/final` folder.  Use them for reference to compare how you completed the labs.
 
-1. If you are finished with this lab move to the next lab. Please donot shut down your test environment as you would be using the same environment in lab6.
+1. If you are finished with this lab move to the next lab. Please do not shut down your test environment as you would be using the same environment in Lab6.
 
 **This completes Lab5.**
 

labs/lab6/readme.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# NGINX Plus Logs, Logging and Troubleshooting
+# NGINX Plus Logs, Health Checks and API
 
 ## Introduction
 
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ In this section, you will enable active Plus Healthchecks. Active healthchecks p
 1. NGINX also records health check failures in the `/var/log/nginx/error.log` file which is symlinked to `/dev/stderr` within our docker setup. If you run below command you can see the error.log content.
 
     ```bash
-    docker log $NAME-nginx-plus
+    docker logs $NAME-nginx-plus
 
     ```
 
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ In this section, you will manage your backend servers dynamically using the NGIN
 1. Start the `wrk` load generation tool by downloading and running the following docker container.
 
    ```bash
-    docker run --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d20m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://$NAME-nginx-plus/coffee
+    docker run --network=lab5_default --rm elswork/wrk -t4 -c200 -d20m -H 'Host: cafe.example.com' --timeout 2s http://nginx-plus/coffee
 
    ```
 

labs/readme.md

@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ Choose one of the [Lab 0: Workshop pre-work](#lab-0-workshop-pre-work-choose-any
 ### Lab 5: NGINX Reverse Proxy and HTTP Load Balancing
 - [Lab 5: NGINX Reverse Proxy and HTTP Load Balancing](lab5/readme.md)
 
-### Lab 6: NGINX Plus Logs, Logging and Troubleshooting
-- [Lab 6: NGINX Plus Logs, Logging and Troubleshooting](lab6/readme.md)
+### Lab 6: NGINX Plus Logs, Health Checks and API
+- [Lab 6: NGINX Plus Logs, Health Checks and API](lab6/readme.md)
 
 ### Lab 7: Monitoring NGINX Plus with Prometheus and Grafana
 - [Lab 7: Monitoring NGINX Plus with Prometheus and Grafana](lab7/readme.md)