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F5 NGINX Ingress Controller
Production-Grade Kubernetes
NGINX Ingress Controller is a best-in-class traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.
In a CNCF survey, nearly two‑thirds of respondents reported using the NGINX Ingress Controller, more than all other controllers combined – and NGINX Ingress Controller has been downloaded more than 10 million times on DockerHub. Combining the speed and performance of NGINX with the trust and security behind the power of F5, NGINX Ingress Controller is synonymous with high‑performing, scalable, and secure modern apps in production.
Your All-in-One Load Balancer, Cache, API Gateway, and WAF for Kubernetes Requirements
Why Use NGINX Ingress Controller?
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Total Traffic Management
Production‑Grade Features
NGINX Ingress Controller provides a robust feature set to secure, strengthen, and scale your containerized apps, including:
- Advanced app‑centric configuration – Use role‑based access control (RBAC) and self‑service to set up security guardrails (not gates), so your teams can manage their apps securely and with agility. Enable multi‑tenancy, reusability, simpler configs, and more.
- 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 WAF. Plus if you’re already using NGINX, NGINX Ingress resources make it easy to adapt existing configuration from your other environments.
Get Production Ready
Use the most popular Ingress technology on the planet to deliver high‑performance, modern apps.
Secure Cloud-Native, Containerized Apps
In today’s Kubernetes‑based, modern application environments, security at the edge is not sufficient. WAFs must be deployed closer to the apps they protect to reduce potential points of failure. NGINX Ingress Controller for NGINX Plus fully integrates with NGINX App Protect in a single, easy-to-deploy configuration, reducing the cost and complexity of production‑grade applications. It’s the only Ingress controller implementation that integrates a fully supported WAF to improve efficiencies by consolidating data‑plane devices and leveraging the Kubernetes API.
Secure your Modern Apps
Get security and speed by simplifying your stack and leveraging the Kubernetes API.
Seamlessly Manage Ingress and Egress Traffic
Easily and intelligently manage your ingress and egress application traffic in one fell swoop! NGINX Ingress Controller for NGINX Plus integrates with the always‑free NGINX Service Mesh for a unified data plane with production‑grade security, functionality, and scale. Lightweight and focused on Layer 7 application traffic management within clusters, NGINX Service Mesh is non‑intrusive, allowing the rest of your tech stack to perform without complications, the way it should be.
Take Control of Kubernetes
Gain confidence with visibility into how Kubernetes distributes traffic within your containerized apps.
Technical Specifications – Deploys on Any Kubernetes Platform, Including:
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- IBM Private Cloud
- Diamanti
For more technical specifications and lists of features and modules see the full technical specifications
