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Ingress-NGINX

Kubernetes ingress controller using NGINX

Reverse Proxy & Gateways Archived ★ 19.5k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained reverse proxy & gateways alternative.

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.

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Key features

  • NGINX-based ingress
  • TLS termination
  • Path and host routing
  • Annotations for fine control

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Battle-tested at scale
  • Wide community adoption
  • Flexible annotation system

Trade-offs

  • Upstream development stopped
  • Annotation config sprawl

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