ingress-nginx VS external-dns

Compare ingress-nginx vs external-dns and see what are their differences.

ingress-nginx

Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes (by kubernetes)

external-dns

Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services (by kubernetes-sigs)
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ingress-nginx external-dns
200 78
16,522 7,188
1.6% 2.7%
9.6 9.6
5 days ago 7 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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ingress-nginx

Posts with mentions or reviews of ingress-nginx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-23.

external-dns

Posts with mentions or reviews of external-dns. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ingress-nginx and external-dns you can also consider the following projects:

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

emissary - open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy

metallb - A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols

cilium-cli - CLI to install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium

haproxy-ingress - HAProxy Ingress

application-gateway-kubernetes-ingress - This is an ingress controller that can be run on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to allow an Azure Application Gateway to act as the ingress for an AKS cluster.

cloudflare-ingress-controller - A Kubernetes ingress controller for Cloudflare's Argo Tunnels

oauth2-proxy - A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.

crossplane - The Cloud Native Control Plane

PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

awx-operator - An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖