Ingress-NGINX
Kubernetes ingress controller using NGINX
Ingress-NGINX is the community-maintained Kubernetes ingress controller built on NGINX. It routes external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to services inside a cluster using ingress resources.
Key features
- NGINX-based ingress
- TLS termination
- Path and host routing
- Annotations for fine control
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
- Mature project with 19.5k GitHub stars
- Written in Go
Ingress-NGINX replaces
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