Helm vs. NGINX Ingress Controller

If you need to automate the deployment of environments in Kubernetes and these environments should be easily replicable in other regions of your cloud provider or even in other cloud providers, then this is the tool for you. Just be prepared for a certain degree of complexity when creating the charts.

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Best suited if we have to manage external traffic inside your Kubernetes cluster and want to use granular control to your applications.

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• Templates - The ability to create templates is really helpful and help creates a baseline for package management.
• Rollbacks - it is godsend. Period.
• Dry-run - This really is helpful when troubleshooting deployments and is great for testing out new charts as well.

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• Provide access to containers
• Manage traffic
• Route traffic
• Lightweight
• Near to zero downtime

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• concurrent deployments
• templating values files

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• Its not related to Ingress functionality but certificate management with cloud vendor would be a feature i would like to see.

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We didn't really need support, but the open-source community seemed responsive and informative when it came to issues. Many cloud native consultancy companies (including ourselves) offer support for Helm.

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We have a natural trending to use what is a reference in its space and Helm has being leader in its area for a long time. Since it has all features we need didn't make sense to us to invest time on researching and testing other alternatives, so Helm was our first and only tool in regards of automating deployments on Kubernetes

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We are already using NGINX which is so reliable, it definitely lends weight to our decision to select NGINX Ingress Controller. Also, even though it is a little more complex to manage, NGINX Ingress Controller definitely have a richer feature set, better performance, caching, traffic management among other features which was why it was chosen.

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• Reduction in human effort.
• Streamline software versions and upgrades.

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• Security is one of the best objective which we achieve with NGINX Ingress
• Cost optimization is one of the business objective

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