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HAProxy Community Edition vs. NGINX Ingress Controller

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HAProxy Community Edition

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AHAProxy Community Edition is a free, open source reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is presented as suited for very high traffic web sites.

    $0

    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
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    HAProxy Community EditionNGINX Ingress Controller
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HAProxy Community EditionNGINX Ingress Controller
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    HAProxy Community EditionNGINX Ingress Controller
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of HAProxy Community Edition and NGINX Ingress Controller
    Feature
    HAProxy Community Edition
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    Ratings
    NGINX Ingress Controller
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Discovery Tools00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings7.92 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings7.92 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    HAProxy Community EditionNGINX Ingress Controller
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    HAProxy Community EditionNGINX Ingress Controller
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    It prevents a single server failure from being a downtime event by adding redundancy to every layer of your architecture. A load balancer facilitates redundancy for the backend layer (web/app servers), but for a true high availability setup, you need to have redundant load balancers as well. So it is well suited for all production related servers and less suited for individual servers that do not require redundancy.
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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
    Open Source
    • Low-Cost Load Balancer
    • Intelligent Request Routing based on URL and/or URI
    • Extremely flexible load balancing and healthchecks, can do almost anything including HTTP, HTTPS, PostgreSQL, etc.
    • SSL Termination
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    F5
    • Provide access to containers
    • Manage traffic
    • Route traffic
    • Lightweight
    • Near to zero downtime
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • A few, rare times each year, HAProxy CPU utilization spikes to 100% and server has to be rebooted - this may be related to HAProxy OR it could be an external factor causing this.
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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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    Usability
    Open Source
    It is very easy to use. I was able to find a lot of documents for it on the internet. Very good community support. There are lots of examples available to try. We mostly use a command-line user interface to interact with it. The CLI is also super easy to use and very easy to interact with
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    F5
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    We haven't used customer support. We mostly used the community version. We build a multi-node HAProxy cluster with HA to the proxy itself using opensource plugins available. With the support available on the internet and the documents available we don't need to use much customer support.
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    F5
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    We chose HA Proxy because it is cheaper than a hardware balancer, it is an open-source solution with a large community behind it and with constant updates. It also allows custom scripts according to needs.HA Proxy is a solution used in many internet sites like GitHub, Reddit, Twitter, and Tuenti.
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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
    Open Source
    • Significantly lower investment vs competitors. In the case of F5s we have Virtual Editions so we're paying for the hardware to run it on top of the several thousand dollar licenses that are required for each pair and we currently have a pair of F5s per client so there's a huge potential for cost savings there.
    • Requires our network engineers to learn a new skill or our Systems engineers to take on the responsibility of managing the load balancers. It's not a huge difference either way, but it does impact the way we have done business in the past.
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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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