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NGINX Ingress Controller vs. Traefik

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NGINX Ingress Controller
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
NGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.N/A
Traefik
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Traefik Labs in San Francisco develops cloud-native application networking software that helps developers and operations teams build, deploy and run modern microservices. Traefik Labs’ flagship solution, Traefik Enterprise, provides API management, ingress control and service mesh together with high availability, advanced security, autoscaling and dedicated support.N/A
Pricing
NGINX Ingress ControllerTraefik
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NGINX Ingress ControllerTraefik
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
NGINX Ingress ControllerTraefik
Considered Both Products
NGINX Ingress Controller
Verified User
Engineer
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, …
Traefik

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Features
NGINX Ingress ControllerTraefik
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
NGINX Ingress Controller
7.8
2 Ratings
1% above category average
Traefik
-
Ratings
Security and Isolation7.52 Ratings00 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
Best Alternatives
NGINX Ingress ControllerTraefik
Small Businesses
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.6 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
NGINX Ingress ControllerTraefik
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NGINX Ingress ControllerTraefik
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.
AS
Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
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Traefik Labs
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Pros
F5
  • Provide access to containers
  • Manage traffic
  • Route traffic
  • Lightweight
  • Near to zero downtime
Verified User
Anonymous
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Traefik Labs
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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.
AS
Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
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Traefik Labs
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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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Traefik Labs
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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
AS
Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
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Traefik Labs
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