NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready

I'm struggling to understand the purpose of this, or why I would choose this over php-fpm. It seems to be competing with Docker as it isolates applications with cgroups, but if I'm already running docker, what's the point? Perhaps another layer of isolation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I still don&#x27;t understand what Unit is.<p>Is it more like Nginx or like Traefik?<p>Is it more a replacement for fastcgi or for php-fpm?

&quot;As of Release 1.0, NGINX Unit supports Go, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby on the same server. Multiple language versions are also supported, so you can, for instance, run applications written for PHP 5 and PHP 7 on the same server.&quot;<p><i>Proceeds to give no examples for setting up PHP 5 and PHP 7 on the same server, anywhere on their site</i>

I’m guessing this is meant for microservices and containers?<p>Edit: It is. I can’t figure out if it is completely new or of it shares code with Nginx “Classic”.<p>And another edit: They don’t seem to have support for dotnet core planned. Interesting.

Will be interesting to see how Java runs on this. Currently Spring boot is sucking up all oxygen in Java microservices space which is basically tomcat inside Spring container instead Spring in Tomcat container.

Seems like the most benefit of it is together with NGINX+ which costs minimum 2500$&#x2F;year&#x2F;instance.