F5 NGINX Ingress Controller

Implement unified Kubernetes-native API gateways, load balancers, and ingress controllers across hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments.

Enterprise-Class Availability, Security, and Visibility for Apps

Scale, optimize, and secure app delivery with F5 NGINX Ingress Controller, a key component of F5 NGINX One. Master management and security challenges, ensuring peak performance in Kubernetes environments.

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Deliver apps without disruption

Ensure availability of business-critical apps in scalable, dynamic environments.

  • Increase Uptime: Ensure availability of business-critical apps at all times with Layer 7 and Layer 4 load balancing, advanced distribution methods, and active health checks.
  • Prevent Connection Timeouts and Errors: Enable dynamic reconfiguration, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and request buffering.

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Gain better insight

Achieve better visibility into app health and performance with more than 200 granular real-time and historical metrics to reduce outages and simplify troubleshooting.

  • Proactively Monitor System Health: Find the root cause of app issues quickly and discover problems before they impact your customers.
  • Integrate with Analytics and Metrics Tools: Collect, monitor, and analyze data through prebuilt integrations with leading ecosystem tools, including OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, and Jaeger.

Component Overview

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Simplified Kubernetes connectivity

Accelerate application deployment and focus on core functionality while NGINX Ingress Controller deals with security and non-functional requirements. It ensures consistent data and control planes across hybrid and multicloud environments, enhancing uptime with robust load balancing and active health checks. It prevents downtime and disruptions with features like dynamic reconfiguration and circuit breaking. Strong authentication, authorization, and encryption practices protect user identities and data transmission. Plus, you can proactively monitor system health and swiftly pinpoint and address potential issues before they affect your users.

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Core Capabilities

Enhance capabilities of cloud provider and pre-packaged Kubernetes offerings with higher degrees of security, availability, and observability at scale.

Integrate strong security controls across distributed environments without slowing release velocity or hurting performance.

Prevent app downtime with advanced connectivity patterns and efficient troubleshooting.

Explore your environment from on-premises to the edge with extensive, granular metrics and dashboards using real-time and historical data.

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