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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AA solution to deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplified by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations.N/A

    NGINX Ingress Controller

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ANGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackNGINX Ingress Controller
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    71%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack and NGINX Ingress Controller
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
    8.2
    8 Ratings
    0% above category average
    NGINX Ingress Controller
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Security and Isolation8.08 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cluster Management8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization8.37 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.97 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.87 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery8.07 Ratings7.92 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.77 Ratings7.92 Ratings
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    Score8.6 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackNGINX Ingress Controller
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (9 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackNGINX Ingress Controller
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is quite straightforward with the UI and you can expose the features you want. This simplifies the experience for non-admins
    Incentivized
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    F5
    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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    Pros
    F5
    • Complex cloud configurations.
    • WAF and DDoS protection.
    • Automation and workflow integration.
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    F5
    • Provide access to containers
    • Manage traffic
    • Route traffic
    • Lightweight
    • Near to zero downtime
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    Cons
    F5
    • It's still a little early so the app feels foreign to our ops teams
    • I would like to customize the UI so I can visually see if I'm in Prod or Dev based on background colors
    • Templates are a little awkward to create
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    F5
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    once we get the hang of it and able to use it effectively, we are able to try out different application ideas without affecting existing infrastructure
    Incentivized
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    F5
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    Usability
    F5
    I gave F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack this usability rating because, in my experience, the F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack product meets all the expectations
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    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's support team is very responsive
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's partner provided services are excellent
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
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    F5
    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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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The WAF can be resource intensive in some cases
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    F5
    • 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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