kubernetes-ingress VS Nginx

Compare kubernetes-ingress vs Nginx and see what are their differences.

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kubernetes-ingress

Posts with mentions or reviews of kubernetes-ingress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-16.
  • ☸️ Kubernetes NGINX Ingress Controller: 10+ Complementary Configurations for Web Applications
    4 projects | dev.to | 16 Oct 2023
    Everything in the YAML snippets below — except for ingress configuration — relates to configuring the NGINX ingress controller. This includes customizing the default configuration.
  • Breaking Terraform files into composable layers
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Sep 2023
    In these examples, I assume that users have deployed an nginx-ingress-controller to their cluster through the eks layer. This controller is responsible for creating an nlb and exposing Elasticsearch and Kibana to the internet through their ingresses.
  • Implementing TLS in Kubernetes
    13 projects | dev.to | 1 Aug 2023
    Now, you need to install the Nginx Ingress Controller so that it can redirect incoming requests to your payment app to use HTTPS. Since you've exposed the app using nodePort, you need to install the Ingress using a custom value file that specifies the service type to NodePort.
  • Kubernetes cannot upload files larger than 1MB
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 2 Jul 2023
    Kubernetes We have a kubernetes cluster which has a dropwizard based web application running as a service. This application has a rest uri to upload files. It cannot upload files larger than 1MB. I get the following error: ERROR [2017-07-27 13:32:47,629] io.dropwizard.jersey.errors.LoggingExceptionMapper: Error handling a request: ea812501b414f0d9! com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')! at [Source: ! 413 Request Entity Too Large! ! 413 Request Entity Too Large! nginx/1.11.3! ! Hide resultsI have tried the suggestions given in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/issues/21. I have edited the Ingress to set the proxy-body-size annotation. Also, I have tried using the configMap without any success. we are using kubernetes version 1.5. Please let me know if you need additional information. Answer link : https://codehunter.cc/a/kubernetes/kubernetes-cannot-upload-files-larger-than-1mb
  • A Comprehensive Guide to API Gateways, Kubernetes Gateways, and Service Meshes
    9 projects | dev.to | 8 Jun 2023
    The example below shows how to configure a canary deployment using Nginx Ingress. The custom annotations used here are specific to Nginx:
  • Ingress controller for vanilla k8s
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 4 May 2023
    This: https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/ Not this: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingress-controller/
  • Assign an External IP to a Node
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 15 Mar 2023
    So far, i've been following the example here to set up an nginx Ingress Controller and some test services behind it. However, I am unable to follow Step 6 which displays the external IP for the node that the load balancer is running on as my node does not have an ExternalIP in the addresses section, only a LegacyHostIP and InternalIP.
  • List of template objects &amp; properties to use with templates?
    1 project | /r/nginx | 2 Mar 2023
  • How to use ACM public certificate for Nginx ingress controller?
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 26 Jan 2023
    Also, of personal note, I highly recommend you use the "ingress-nginx" controller which has a huge community and is of much higher quality and flexibility than the "nginx-ingress controller by nginx inc". I've had a lot of success with dozens of clients with this controller. It rocks!
  • Questions about Blue/Green &amp; Canary Deployments (Vanilla K8)
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 16 Jan 2023
    For example, the ingress project from NGINX has its own CRDs that give better control over service versions and blue/green and canary cutovers https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/tree/v3.0.0/examples/custom-resources/traffic-splitting

Nginx

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nginx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-24.
  • Nginx 1.26.0 Stable Released
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2024
    Yeah, unless I'm looking at it wrong, there doesn't seem to be any meaningful difference between 1.25.5 and 1.26.0:

    https://github.com/nginx/nginx/compare/release-1.25.5...rele...

  • How to securely reverse-proxy ASP.NET Core web apps
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2024
    However, it's very unlikely that .NET developers will directly expose their Kestrel-based web apps to the internet. Typically, we use other popular web servers like Nginx, Traefik, and Caddy to act as a reverse-proxy in front of Kestrel for various reasons:
  • Ask HN: Is nginx.org (the domain-name itself) gone?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2024
  • Freenginx: Core Nginx Developer Announces Fork of Popular Web Server
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024
    > I actually don't understand why I am seeing arguments like this all the time.

    Have a look at:

    https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/master/src/http/modules/...

    It's got the whole checklist: nginx idiosyncratic module system, inline parsing, custom utf conversion, buffer preallocation and adjustments, linked lists, comments about side effects of custom allocator, and probably other things.

    It's not easy to deal with source like that and any serious improvement to that area would effectively be a rewrite anyway.

    Since anything doing work in nginx is a module anyway, it wouldn't even have to be a full rewrite in one go.

  • The Internet is Maintained by 1 Software Developer
    1 project | dev.to | 25 Feb 2024
    According to this article, nGinx is being used to serve 34% of all websites in the world. I checked out who's contributing to nGinx, and just like I thought, the project has 8,208 commits, and 5,366 of those commits was made by 2 software developers; igorsoev and mdounin.
  • [06/52] Accessible Kubernetes with Terraform and DigitalOcean
    4 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2024
  • Freenginx.org
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
  • Performance benchmark of PHP runtimes
    7 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2024
    Nginx + Roadrunner (fcgi mode)
  • Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2024
    Apache’s mod_fastcgi’s last commit was 2 weeks ago:

    https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/

    It’s a fork of what you linked (and was more popular afaik back when fastcgi was state of the art, and apache was the undisputed champion of web servers).

    These days, nginx has more market share than apache, and its fastcgi module is one of the more recently updated ones in its source tree (5 months vs multiple years):

    https://github.com/nginx/nginx/tree/master/src/http/modules

    If I was going to build an embedded web server, I’d start with nostd rust, probably with though axum + tokio, since thats already memory safe-ish.

    If I needed fastcgi for some reason (dynamically loadable endpoints, or os-level isolation), there are at least four implementations of fastcgi for it. No idea if any are decent though.

  • Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about
    8 projects | dev.to | 21 Dec 2023
    APISIX is an API Gateway. It builds upon OpenResty, a Lua layer built on top of the famous nginx reverse-proxy. APISIX adds abstractions to the mix, e.g., Route, Service, Upstream, and offers a plugin-based architecture.

What are some alternatives?

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

amicontained - Container introspection tool. Find out what container runtime is being used as well as features available.

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

ingress-nginx - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

envoy - Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

docker-swarm-ingress - Nginx swarm ingress controller, a minimalistic approach to allow routing into a Docker Swarm based on the public hostnames.

Squid - Squid Web Proxy Cache

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.

nestjs-monorepo-microservices-proxy - Example of how to implement a Nestjs monorepo with no shared folder

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

Hiawatha - Hiawatha is an open source webserver with security, easy to use and lightweight as the three key features. Hiawatha supports among others (Fast)CGI, IPv6, URL rewriting and reverse proxy. It has security features no other webserver has, like blocking SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks and exploit attempts. The built-in monitoring tool makes it perfect for large scale deployments.

ingress - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes [Moved to: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx]

YARP - A toolkit for developing high-performance HTTP reverse proxy applications.