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.
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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.
What are NGINX Ingress Controller's top competitors?
VMware Avi Load Balancer, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) are common alternatives for NGINX Ingress Controller.