F5 NGINX Ingress Controller (Premium Edition)

My main use case for NGINX Ingress Controller  is as a smart traffic controller, with the built-in firewalls, DoS protections for our APIs, and better reliability under load.

Whenever we need to manage traffic, we have contact with our tenants, so we create the hostname with their name and define a pod for them, allowing NGINX Ingress Controller  to automatically scale the software and increase the number of pods when the number of users for this hostname increases, ensuring we don't lose traffic and the whole site doesn't go down.

Additionally, we can use advanced traffic and routing management, plus monitoring tools with their APIs. Whenever a site goes down or any error occurs, we receive instant error notifications through the API, which is really helpful.

In my experience, the best features NGINX Ingress Controller offers are its integration systems, which easily connect with other NGINX  API gateways, risk limiting, JWT validations, and other NGINX  products.

The integration with other analytics products enhances our team's capabilities as we use NGINX App Protect  with NGINX Ingress Controller to protect the whole site using firewalls from denial of service, while the JWT validation helps protect our site from unauthorized access.

NGINX Ingress Controller has positively impacted our organization by saving us a lot of time. Previously, we used the NGINX open source ingress that lacked support and reliability, so when we switched to the official controller, it saved us time, reduced our downtime, and allowed for safe releases.

One improvement I see for NGINX Ingress Controller is that the obvious downside is the cost, as you pay for the license on top of AWS  infrastructure and the pricing is not cheap. However, compared with the cost of development time, downtime, or buying multiple tools, it is often justified, so cost awareness is still necessary.

I would like to see a more visual management UX and even stronger AWS  native integration patterns.

I have been using NGINX Ingress Controller for about one year.

NGINX Ingress Controller is quite stable in my experience.

NGINX Ingress Controller's scalability is quite reliable and very easy to scale, as it mostly operates intelligently on its own without needing manual scalability.

Customer support is very great and is one of the good points about NGINX Ingress Controller. I would rate customer support a ten because they are very helpful.

Positive

We previously used Traefik, which was very cheap, but it was not as powerful as NGINX Ingress Controller, so we switched.

I have seen a return on investment as mentioned. We saved about ten to fifteen engineering hours per month and a single outage annually.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good. The pricing was expensive at first, but throughout the journey, it became feasible.

Before choosing NGINX Ingress Controller, we evaluated other options such as Amazon ALB Controller, Kong's ingress controller, and HAProxy , among others.

My advice for others looking into using NGINX Ingress Controller is that if you have a large number of users and need auto-scaling, you should definitely go with NGINX Ingress Controller, but if you are just starting out and are new, I would not recommend this.

NGINX Ingress Controller is quite good. Its integration is really helpful, and customer support is also good as they usually connect us to the developer when needed, making it easy to get things done. I give this product a rating of nine out of ten.

Private Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

it is easy to implemnt and control traffic based on use case and port like 443 (hhtps ) and http (80 ) and it support custom TCP port also . you can use nginx ingress controller on VM (IAAS ) based server and kuberneties (PAAS ) based servie also .

What do you dislike about the product?

by default it allow http 80 , it will good if it allow by default 443 due to security region .

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

for this we have many option like for vm based appliction appchie , php and for gke based istio but Nginx work on both with intigration of php and other language also .

What do you like best about the product?

It provides solution with security and reliability keeping great performance

What do you dislike about the product?

The major downside of it being bit complex.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides good scalability when it comes to providing load balance to the critical applications

What do you like best about the product?

Our company has been using the F5 INGINX ingress controller since many years for effective management of traffic for Kubernetes systems.

It is the best controller available in the market for traffic management.

The best part about this controller is that it is very easy to use as well as to implement.

It is also very useful to integrate with various other solutions. In case of any issues or concerns that we face as a customer we get the best customer support possible and instant support.

We have been using it on a daily basis and from time to time it also provides high realiability and sustainability.

What do you dislike about the product?

As an administrator I have been using this controller and working on this controller for many years.

I cannot think of any major issues of failures that you observed over the years and it has been a very stable solution.

There are no major drawbacks or points to dislike about this solution.

The cost of the controller is a little higher but it is worth the money.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The F5 NGINX ingress controller is one of the best controller that are company realise on over the past years.

The best part about this controller is that it is very efficient for kubernetes traffic management and helps our kubernetes systems load balancing as well as efficient working.

It is very easy to use implement and integrate with various other solutions.

The best part about this controller is that it increases the stability sustainability robustness and reliability in kubernetes environments.

What do you like best about the product?

The quality of the tool makes the ingress management more accessible and cleaner.

What do you dislike about the product?

The price could be expensive, especially for those who want to use it in a small scenario.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The load balance is complex depending on the infrastructure, so with the solution, I could make the cluster management easier.