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NGINX Ingress Controller

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What is NGINX Ingress Controller?

NGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees
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Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
Rakuten Viki (Entertainment, 51-200 employees)
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What is NGINX Ingress Controller?

NGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.

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What is NGINX Ingress Controller?

NGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.

NGINX Ingress Controller provides a feature set to secure, strengthen, and scale containerized apps, including:

  • Advanced app‑centric configuration – Use role‑based access control (RBAC) and self‑service to set up security guardrails (not gates), so teams can manage their apps securely and with agility. Enable multi‑tenancy, reusability, and simpler configs.
  • Visibility and performance monitoring – Pinpoint undesirable behaviors and performance bottlenecks to simplify troubleshooting and make fixes faster.
  • NGINX Ingress resources – A native, type‑safe, and indented configuration style to simplify capabilities like circuit breaking, sophisticated routing, header manipulation, mTLS authentication, and NGINX App Protect Web Application Firewall (WAF).  For users of NGINX, NGINX Ingress resources is designed to make it easy to adapt existing configuration from other environments.

NGINX Ingress Controller Videos

Introducing NGINX Ingress Controller. The NGINX Ingress Controller is a dedicated solution that brings scalability, visibility, and security to your cloud-native containerized applications.
F5 DevCentral's Jason Rahm digs into the differences between the Kubernetes ingress controllers offered independently by the kubernetes community and NGINX.

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March 27, 2024

NGINX Ingress Controller

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Need a light weight ingress controller to manage incoming traffic for container workloads.
Pros and Cons
  • Provide access to containers
  • Manage traffic
  • Route traffic
  • Lightweight
  • Near to zero downtime
  • Is a little complex
  • Ability to manage certificates
  • Service discovery
Likelihood to Recommend
Is a high performance, light weight load balancer that is designed specifically to support container platforms!
NGINX Ingress Controller Feature Ratings
Container Management (8)
43.75%
4.4
Security and Isolation
70%
7.0
Cluster Management
N/A
N/A
Storage Management
N/A
N/A
Resource Allocation and Optimization
70%
7.0
Discovery Tools
N/A
N/A
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
70%
7.0
Self-Healing and Recovery
70%
7.0
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
70%
7.0
Return on Investment
  • Lightweight
  • Full featured
  • Traffic management
  • Caching
Alternatives Considered
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.
Other Software Used
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
March 22, 2024

NGINX Ingress

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Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
Rakuten Viki (Entertainment, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using at on AWS EKS. In microservices architecture its help us to create a zero trust architecture and mTLS for app security.
We have 50+ of microservices. To manage traffic between them we are using nginx ingress controller. Its easy to install and have better performace with minimal resources consumption.

Pros and Cons
  • To manage external traffic Nginx ingress provides us a single point of traffic entry instead of using AWS LB for every service. Along with saving cost its also help us to create and manage access to our application
  • Flexible NGINX Ingress allows us to easily customize and extend its functionality using annotation ,ConfigMaps and custom Templates
  • It has extensive and active community support
  • Its not related to Ingress functionality but certificate management with cloud vendor would be a feature i would like to see.
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited if we have to manage external traffic inside your Kubernetes cluster and want to use granular control to your applications.
NGINX Ingress Controller Feature Ratings
Container Management (6)
93.33333333333334%
9.3
Security and Isolation
90%
9.0
Resource Allocation and Optimization
90%
9.0
Discovery Tools
90%
9.0
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
90%
9.0
Self-Healing and Recovery
100%
10.0
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • Security is one of the best objective which we achieve with NGINX Ingress
  • Cost optimization is one of the business objective
Other Software Used
Traefik, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
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