IBM Cloud Managed Istio vs. NGINX Ingress Controller

It is a perfect application when you have multiple users and/or developers and you want to create rules and standards for access and the ability to change access levels. The reporting of usage is good, but adding more granularity into the metrics that have been used to measure are not specific enough. They provide detail but drilling into the detail would be more appropriate i.e. access to the baseline data.

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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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• Debug issues
• Monitoring
• allows many services form many different sources

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

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• Still missing functionalities for a full usage as traffic director.

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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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Training and usage support available

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1) One-stop solution for all the complex network connectivity managed by [IBM Cloud Managed Istio]. 2) Nice dashboard to understand the flow. 3) Easy to troubleshoot the service if any one of the APIs is not responding. 4) We can integrate it with Azure Kubernetes service and other cloud provider Kubernetes services. 5) Monitoring the health of the pods can be easily configured and alerts can be triggered very accurately with this tool.

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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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• Management burden is reduced resulting in positive ROI.
• Application is being seamlessly instrumented with good impact on business.

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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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