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    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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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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    NGINX Ingress Controller
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    F5
    Chose NGINX Ingress Controller
    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, …
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    Features
    NGINX Ingress Controller
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of NGINX Ingress Controller
    Feature
    NGINX Ingress Controller
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Security and Isolation7.52 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.52 Ratings
    Discovery Tools8.21 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.52 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery7.92 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging7.92 Ratings
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    NGINX Ingress Controller
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINX Ingress Controller
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NGINX Ingress Controller
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    • Provide access to containers
    • Manage traffic
    • Route traffic
    • Lightweight
    • Near to zero downtime
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    Cons
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    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
    • 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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