metallb VS ingress-nginx

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

metallb

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

ingress-nginx

Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes (by kubernetes)
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metallb ingress-nginx
78 200
6,554 16,522
2.0% 1.6%
9.4 9.6
6 days ago 5 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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metallb

Posts with mentions or reviews of metallb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

kube-vip - Kubernetes Control Plane Virtual IP and Load-Balancer

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

calico - Cloud native networking and network security

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

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.

external-dns - Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services

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

apisix-ingress-controller - APISIX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes

cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes