kubernetes-ingress-controller vs haproxy-ingress

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kubernetes-ingress-controller		haproxy-ingress
	Project
8	Mentions	6
2,132	Stars	1,005
1.6%	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	8.4
5 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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kubernetes-ingress-controller

Posts with mentions or reviews of kubernetes-ingress-controller. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-30.

Kubernetes releases ingress2gateway tool for upcoming GA of Gateway API
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2023
How to quickly block unwanted IP address when using ingress-nginx without the need of redeployment workloads?
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 30 Apr 2022
Using Kong Ingress Controller with Spring Boot Services
1 project | dev.to | 23 Mar 2022

Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes
Which API Gateway for K8s are you using?
3 projects | /r/devops | 2 Sep 2021

Here you go! https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/issues/729
Full Stack Kubernetes with Kong Ingress Controller
2 projects | dev.to | 28 Jun 2021

The key to handling modern dynamic, scalable workloads in Kubernetes is a networking stack that can deliver API management, a service mesh and an ingress controller. Kong Ingress Controller allows users to manage the routing rules that control external user access to the service in a Kubernetes cluster from the same platform.
How I Stopped Coding Repetitive Service Components with Kong
3 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2021

For those organizations using Kubernetes for their container orchestration, Kong created the Kong Ingress Controller which implements authentication, transformations, and other functionalities (via plugins) across Kubernetes clusters. Kong Ingress Controller updates a standard Kubernetes implementation as shown below:
Using Kubernetes Ingress Controller as an API Gateway
1 project | dev.to | 23 Mar 2021

This article will walk through how easy it is to set up the open source Kong Ingress Controller as a Kubernetes API gateway on a cluster.
Deployment of multiple apps on Kubernetes cluster — Walkthrough
4 projects | dev.to | 8 Jan 2021

But here is the tricky part. There are lots of Ingress Controllers available. Some of them are opensource, but some of them are paid one. For this project I’ve chosen an “official” Kubernetes Ingress Controller based on Nginx. But please be not confused with another one, also based on Nginx but created by NGINX Inc - this one is paid. Apart from these both there are also other* Ingress Controller*s available like Kong Ingress, or Traefik.

haproxy-ingress

Posts with mentions or reviews of haproxy-ingress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-12.

So you want to deploy mTLS
2 projects | dev.to | 12 Jun 2023

This was all running on Kubernetes, coupled with Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and an HAProxy deployment managed by an ingress controller (jcmoraisjr/haproxy-ingress with a modified config file template). Branch or test deployments were a little different: the database was deployed on Kubernetes directly, to make it simple to deploy additional environments without spinning up resources outside of Kubernetes.
no service with name ingress-controller/ingress-default-backend found
2 projects | /r/codehunter | 26 Apr 2023
Back to basics: accessing Kubernetes pods
6 projects | dev.to | 9 Aug 2022

It's implementation-dependent and implementations offer different features, e.g., Nginx, Traefik, HAProxy, etc.
Kubernetes Ingress: Nginx Ingress Edition
8 projects | dev.to | 4 May 2022

HAProxy Ingress is an ingress controller for HAProxy.
which ingress controller do you prefer
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 18 Sep 2021
In a HA setup, why do I need a load balancer for the kube-apiserver if can just ssh the next kube-apiserver if one was down?
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 22 May 2021

Which k8s-HAProxy do you use, this https://github.com/haproxytech/kubernetes-ingress or this https://github.com/jcmoraisjr/haproxy-ingress or voyager?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kubernetes-ingress-controller and haproxy-ingress you can also consider the following projects:

Kong - 🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.

ingress-nginx - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

kong-oidc-keycloak - Kong OIDC + Keycloak + httpbin

kubernetes-ingress - HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller

kuma - 🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.

skipper - An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress

konga - More than just another GUI to Kong Admin API

tyk-operator - Tyk Operator for Kubernetes

kanban-board - Single-click full-stack application (Postgres, Spring Boot & Angular) using Docker Compose

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

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.

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy [Moved to: https://github.com/traefik/traefik]