Product/Project Ingress Nginx

1. General info
Based on nginx

Documentation https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-ng
2. Protocols
HTTP/HTTPS ✔️

HTTP2 ✔️

gRPC ✔️

TCP Comparison of Partial

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TCP+TLS Kubernetes
UDP Ingress Partial
Websockets controllers ✔️
Proxy Protocol
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QUIC/HTTP3
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3. Clients [email protected]
Rate limiting (L4) ✔️
Rate limiting (L7) ✔️
WAF
License: ✔️
Timeouts Apache 2.0 ✔️
Safe-list/Block-list Last updated: ✔️
Authentication October 2, 2022 ✔️
Authorisation ✖︎

4. Traffic routing Find more research at:

Host https://learnk8s.io/research ✔️
Path ✔️
Headers ✔️ Supported in Free version ✔️
Querystring ✔️ Supported in Enterprise version ✔️
Method ✖︎ Not supported ✔️
ClientIP Partial Partially supported ✔️
Needs help Not sure if it is supported
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5. Upstream probes/resil
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Retries ✔️
Circuit Breaker ✖︎
6.Load balancer strategi
Round robin ✔️
Sticky sessions ✔️
Least connections ✖︎
Ring hash ✔️
Maglev ✖︎
Exponential-Weighted-Moving-Average ✔️
Custom load balancing ✖︎
Power of two random choices Needs help
Global load balancing Needs help
External load balancing Needs help
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7. Authentication
Basic auth ✔️
External Auth ✔️
Client certificate - mTLS ✔️
OAuth ✔️
OpenID ✖︎
JWT ✖︎
LDAP ✖︎
HMAC ✖︎
SAML Needs help
8. Observability
Logging ✔️
Metrics ✔️
Tracing ✔️
9. Kubernetes Integratio
CRD ✖︎
Clusterwide
Scope and
namespace
Support for the Gateway API (Ingress v2)
current v1alpha2
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10. Traffic shaping
Canary ✔️
Session Affinity ✔️
Traffic Mirroring ✔️
11. Interface
Dashboard ✖︎
 Billing and reporting ✖︎
Developer portal ✖︎
12. Other
Hot reloading ✔️
LetsEncrypt Integration ✔️
Transparent update of certificates Needs help
Wildcard certificate support ✔️
State sharing Needs help
 Kong Apache APISIXAzure App Gateway
Nginx+
Ingress HAProxy TechHAProxy (jcmoraisjr)

nginx + Azure
nginx nginx nginx haproxy haproxy
App Gateway
https://docs.konghq.com/kubernetes-ingress-controller/latest/
https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller/blob/master/README.md
https://azure.github.io/application-gateway-kubernetes-ingress/
https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingress-controller/
https://github.com/haproxytech/kubernetes-ingres
https://haproxy-ingress.github.io/d

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 Voyager Istio Ingress Contour Emissary-ingress (ex
Gloo
Ambassador)
Traefik

haproxy envoy envoy envoy envoy traefik

https://voyagermesh.com/docs/v12.0.0/welcome/
https://istio.io/latest/docs/
https://projectcontour.io/docs/main/
https://www.getambassador.io/products/api-gateway/
https://docs.solo.io/gloo-edge/latest/
https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/
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 Skipper Citrix Ingress GKE Ingress ALB Ingress AKO KrakenD

NSX Advanced Lura Project

skipper Citrix ADC GLBC Elastic LB
LB (Avi) (Linux foundation)
https://opensource.zalando.com/skipper/
https://developer-docs.citrix.com/projects/citrix-k8s-ingress-controller/en/latest/
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/ingress
https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-load-balancer-controller/late
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Mateus Caruccio
24-Dec-21 Jing Lin
Feb-22 pie-r
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