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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Podman

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/APodman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on Linux Systems. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Podman is open source and free, supported and maintained by the Containers organization, with code available from GitHub.N/A
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Features
    NGINX Ingress ControllerPodman
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of NGINX Ingress Controller and Podman.io
    Feature
    NGINX Ingress Controller
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Podman.io
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Security and Isolation7.52 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discovery Tools8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINX Ingress ControllerPodman
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NGINX Ingress ControllerPodman
    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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    Open Source
    While it always depends on your use case, I believe security concerns of need for root user is a concern, so it is worth considering daemonless container service over Docker, which works just as good and has support for docker compose. Another good reason is the licensing for enterprise usage, which podman has no restrictions for. It’s also a great choice for OpenShift integration, which is seamless and works well with Rancher as well.
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    Pros
    F5
    • Provide access to containers
    • Manage traffic
    • Route traffic
    • Lightweight
    • Near to zero downtime
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    Open Source
    • It’s daemonless, so somewhat more secure.
    • It works exceptionally well and is compatible with Docker compose
    • Podman Desktop actually makes individual usage also pretty easy.
    • It can be used as Docker alternative with almost no additional steps
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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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    Open Source
    • Podman desktop is getting more stable with each version, but does need more UX friendliness as well.
    • Official support for development tools and IDEs is missing for most tools
    • It works well with Kubernetes, but I wouldn’t mind additional improvements
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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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    Open Source
    Podman is Daemonless, lightweight and doesn’t charge us for commercial usage, so it’s a relief for startups. Minikube and Rancher are a bit more complex for our use cases; so we keep things simple, fast and secure with Podman that can easily be managed with Podman Desktop and other works with our docker-compose based projects without issues.
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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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    Open Source
    • We definitely feel more secure.
    • We do not suffer from memory or cpu overuses as it uses fedora coreOS which is lightweight
    • We do not have to worry about license payments for our basic usages.
    • It’s open source so quick fixes imminent with maximum transparency.
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