NGINX Ingress Controller vs. Podman.io

Best suited if we have to manage external traffic inside your Kubernetes cluster and want to use granular control to your applications.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Provide access to containers
• Manage traffic
• Route traffic
• Lightweight
• Near to zero downtime

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• 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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• 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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• 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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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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• 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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• 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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