NGINX Ingress Controller

Score7.9 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is NGINX Ingress Controller?

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

Categories & Use Cases

Discovery Tools
Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.
Category average: 8.1
Self-Healing and Recovery
Product can be configured to automatically restart, replace, reschedule, kill, and validate jobs, containers, nodes, or clusters.
Category average: 7.8
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
Product provides tools to manage performance, health, and other data related to containers or clusters. This could include analytics tools, logging tools, live dashboards, etc.
Category average: 7.9

Security and Isolation
Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.
Category average: 8.5
Resource Allocation and Optimization
Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.
Category average: 7.7
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
Product provides tools or functionality to deliver updates to containerized applications in ways that minimize the impact of errors, and revert updates that cause problems.
Category average: 7.7

Amit Setia

Senior Engineer] in Engineering at Rakuten Viki (51-200 employees employees)

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

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

Cons

Its not related to Ingress functionality but certificate management with cloud vendor would be a feature i would like to see.

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)

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Need a light weight ingress controller to manage incoming traffic for container workloads.

Pros

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

Cons

Is a little complex
Ability to manage certificates
Service discovery

Return on Investment

Lightweight
Full featured
Traffic management
Caching

Alternatives Considered

Traefik

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

VMware Avi Load Balancer

Google Kubernetes Engine

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS

NGINX Ingress Controller

What is NGINX Ingress Controller?

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Top Performing Features

Discovery Tools

Self-Healing and Recovery

Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging

Areas for Improvement

Security and Isolation

Resource Allocation and Optimization

Update Rollouts and Rollbacks

Reviews

NGINX Ingress

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Other Software Used