Ingress Controllers
In order for the Ingress resource to work, the cluster must have an ingress controller running.
Unlike other types of controllers which run as part of the kube-controller-manager binary, Ingress controllers
are not started automatically with a cluster. Use this page to choose the ingress controller implementation
that best fits your cluster.
Kubernetes as a project currently supports and maintains GCE and nginx controllers.
Additional controllers
- AKS Application Gateway Ingress Controller is an ingress controller that enables ingress to AKS clusters using the Azure Application Gateway.
- Ambassador API Gateway is an Envoy based ingress controller with community or commercial support from Datawire.
- AppsCode Inc. offers support and maintenance for the most widely used HAProxy based ingress controller Voyager.
- AWS ALB Ingress Controller enables ingress using the AWS Application Load Balancer.
- Contour is an Envoy based ingress controller provided and supported by VMware.
- Citrix provides an Ingress Controller for its hardware (MPX), virtualized (VPX) and free containerized (CPX) ADC for baremetal and cloud deployments.
- F5 Networks provides support and maintenance for the F5 BIG-IP Controller for Kubernetes.
- Gloo is an open-source ingress controller based on Envoy which offers API Gateway functionality with enterprise support from solo.io.
- HAProxy Ingress is a highly customizable community-driven ingress controller for HAProxy.
- HAProxy Technologies offers support and maintenance for the HAProxy Ingress Controller for Kubernetes. See the official documentation.
- Istio based ingress controller Control Ingress Traffic.
- Kong offers community or commercial support and maintenance for the Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes.
- NGINX, Inc. offers support and maintenance for the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes.
- Skipper HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress, designed as a library to build your custom proxy
- Traefik is a fully featured ingress controller (Let’s Encrypt, secrets, http2, websocket), and it also comes with commercial support by Containous.
Using multiple Ingress controllers
You may deploy any number of ingress controllers
within a cluster. When you create an ingress, you should annotate each ingress with the appropriate
ingress.class
to indicate which ingress controller should be used if more than one exists within your cluster.
If you do not define a class, your cloud provider may use a default ingress controller.
Ideally, all ingress controllers should fulfill this specification, but the various ingress controllers operate slightly differently.
Note: Make sure you review your ingress controller’s documentation to understand the caveats of choosing it.
What's next
- Learn more about Ingress.
- Set up Ingress on Minikube with the NGINX Controller.
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