IBM Cloud Code Engine vs. NGINX Ingress Controller

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Score 8.7 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload…N/A
NGINX Ingress Controller
Score 7.9 out of 10
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NGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.N/A
Pricing
IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Ingress Controller
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Ingress Controller
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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Features
IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Ingress Controller
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Code Engine
6.7
15 Ratings
16% below category average
NGINX Ingress Controller
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Ratings
Scalability6.615 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.715 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Code Engine
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Ratings
NGINX Ingress Controller
7.8
2 Ratings
2% 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
IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Ingress Controller
Likelihood to Recommend
6.4
(15 ratings)
7.9
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.3
(11 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Code EngineNGINX Ingress Controller
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
It would be a good solution for running serverless applications. Because infrastructure setup and maintenance expenses can be avoided, the investment will pay for itself. The time to value is short, allowing IT to respond to business demands quickly. It aided us in customizing security as well as operating a personal project using to autoscale up and down approach. Also, because there isn't much hassle, items can be pushed into production as soon as possible. Simply push a container, create an application, and you're ready to go. But, It is less suited when you have a static machine or need to keep data in some way and do not want to utilize network storage or a database.
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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
IBM
  • Managed Environment for partners and customers - shifting skills and speed to CSP
  • A variety of programming model support
  • Elastic scalability for cloud native development and speed
  • Flexible consumption model
  • Containerized workloads with horizontal scalability
  • Here is an example - live demo walk-thru delivered to partners and community:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBClYgpDFg
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F5
  • Provide access to containers
  • Manage traffic
  • Route traffic
  • Lightweight
  • Near to zero downtime
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Cons
IBM
  • the pricing structure is complicated, and the servers are expensive. I really think they should offer better pricing options and support for more languages
  • sometimes the servers go down, and they take too long to respond to support tickets
  • uploading documents is slow since I have to do it one by one, making the process much longer than it should be
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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
IBM
Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
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F5
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Usability
IBM
Consumers can purchase individual components as well as unlocking new bundles with special features and services including the extensive data management governance capabilities of the Automation range. Kubernetes containerizing for effective service implementation and an agile, flexible multi-cloud data program help both utilization expansion and deployment to be improved by this architecture.
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F5
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
What impresses me most about IBM Cloud Code Engine is the container workload management capability and the Cloud services and dataflow monitoring functionalities. Data security and network security control via IBM Cloud Code Engine is quite excellent and very responsive data integration functions and the first deployment is not very technical.
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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
IBM
  • [One] positive is that we have one tool to learn (and a simple one) for all kinds of deployment. We need less people to maintain the system.
  • We have saved a lot of time on trouble shooting. It's clear how it works. It's "just" kubernetes..
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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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