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F5 NGINX Ingress Controller vs. F5 NGINX

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricF5 NGINX Ingress Controller

by F5

F5 NGINX

by F5

Overall rating4.64.6
Review count17113
Ease of use9.28.7
Ease of setup9.28.6
Quality of support9.48.1
Meets requirements9.49.4
NPS76.47058876.785714
Small Business11.8%39.8%
Mid-Market64.7%39.8%
Enterprise23.5%20.4%
Total page views1621,370
Total LLM citations5877,495

F5 NGINX Ingress Controller

NGINX Ingress Controller provides Kubernetes traffic management with API gateway, identity, and observability features. NGINX Ingress Controller provides a feature set to secure, strengthen, and scale containerized apps, including: Advanced app‑centric configuration – Use role‑based access control (RBAC) and self‑service to set up security guardrails (not gates), so teams can manage their apps securely and with agility. Enable multi‑tenancy, reusability, and simpler configs.

Pros

  • Integrations
  • Scaling
  • Traffic Management
  • Configuration Ease

F5 NGINX

NGINX, Inc. is the company behind NGINX, the popular open source project trusted by more than 400 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices‑based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation.

Pros

  • Configuration Ease