## Swarmlab is a collection of services that aims to > - provide teachers and professors with online remote tools to do their lessons > > - give students the opportunity to study real life examples in their chosen area of expertise > > - allow developers to fully test and debug their applications and provide POC’s > > - or you simply want to use a Application (in a microservices-based architecture) > > Swarmlab provides you with all the required tools, tools to teach work or try out demos in a completely virtual environment. > > More info: http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/index.html ![alt text](images/swarmlab-network.png "") ## LabInstance nginx Nginx (pronounced "engine X"[8] /ˌɛndʒɪnˈɛks/ EN-jin-EKS), stylized as NGINX, nginx or NginX, is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. The software was created by Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004.[9] Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use NGINX,[10] often as a load balancer. A company of the same name was founded in 2011 to provide support and Nginx Plus paid software. In March 2019, the company was acquired by F5 Networks for $670 million. As of January 2021, Netcraft estimated that Apache served 24.63% of the million busiest websites, while Nginx served 23.21% and Microsoft Internet Information Services is in third place at 6.85% (for some of Netcraft's other stats Nginx is ahead of Apache), while according to W3Techs, Apache is ranked first at 35.0%, Nginx is ranked second at 33.0% and Cloudflare Server third at 17.3%. https://www.nginx.com/ ## Quickstart This is a quickstart guide of howto use this *LabInstance* ### HowTo use it ### Default Configuration - Working Directory > /home/docker/project - Default user > docker - Default password > docker - Default password4root > pass ### RUN INSTANCE Swarmlab services can be run in different ways. - You can run them **through the swarmlab hybrid environment** (http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/hybrid/start-microservices.html) - or use them individually at will on the **command line of your system** #### CLI > git clone ... > > cd [DIRECTORY] > #### help > > make help > #### create service > > make create > #### start service > > make start > #### stop service > > make stop > #### list service > > make list > #### clean service > > make clean >