ingress-nginx与nginx ingress不是一个东西

看了两周的文档才发现 Ingress-NginxNginx Ingress 不是同一个东西, 两者的功能和实现方式都不一样. 并且还有指导迁移的文档.

Ingress-NGINX 是社区版, 参与讨论的人数更多, 搜索到的答案更多. NGINX Ingress 是商业版, 功能更多, 但是社区参与度更低.

根据 Deploy with NGINX Ingress Controller - Overview

NGINX Ingress Controller can be used for free with NGINX Open Source. Paying customers have access to NGINX Ingress Controller with NGINX Plus. To deploy NGINX Ingress Controller with NGINX Service Mesh, you must use either:

Open Source NGINX Ingress Controller version 3.0+ NGINX Plus version of NGINX Ingress Controller Visit the NGINX Ingress Controller product page for more information.

NGINX Ingress Controller 可以通过 NGINX Open Source 免费使用. 付费客户可以通过 NGINX Plus 访问 NGINX Ingress Controller.

另外 nginx 的商业版官网已迁移至www.f5.com

Nginx Ingress Controller 的产品页在https://www.f5.com/products/nginx/nginx-ingress-controller

这篇 2021.05 的博文对比了它们的区别: There are two Nginx Ingress Controllers for k8s. What?

Aspect or Feature kubernetes/ingress-nginx nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress with NGINX nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress with NGINX Plus
Fundamental
Authors Kubernetes community NGINX Inc and community NGINX Inc and community
NGINX version Custom NGINX build that includes several third-party modules NGINX official mainline build NGINX Plus
Commercial support N/A N/A Included
Implemented in Go/Lua (while Nginx is written in C) Go/Python Go/Python
Load balancing configuration via the Ingress resource
Merging Ingress rules with the same host Supported Supported via Mergeable Ingresses Supported via Mergeable Ingresses
HTTP load balancing extensions - Annotations See the supported annotations See the supported annotations See the supported annotations
HTTP load balancing extensions – ConfigMap See the supported ConfigMap keys See the supported ConfigMap keys See the supported ConfigMap keys
TCP/UDP Supported via a ConfigMap Supported via custom resources Supported via custom resources
Websocket Supported Supported via an annotation Supported via an annotation
TCP SSL Passthrough Supported via a ConfigMap Supported via custom resources Supported via custom resources
JWT validation Not supported Not supported Supported
Session persistence Supported via a third-party module Not supported Supported
Canary testing (by header, cookie, weight) Supported via annotations Supported via custom resources Supported via custom resources
Configuration templates See the template See the templates See the templates
Load balancing configuration via Custom Resources
HTTP load balancing Not supported See VirtualServer and VirtualServerRoute resources See VirtualServer and VirtualServerRoute resources
TCP/UDP load balancing Not supported See TransportServer resource See TransportServer resource
TCP SSL Passthrough load balancing Not supported See TransportServer resource See TransportServer resource
Deployment
Command-line arguments See the arguments See the arguments See the arguments
TLS certificate and key for the default server Required as a command-line argument/ auto-generated Required as a command-line argument Required as a command-line argument
Helm chart Supported Supported Supported
Operator Not supported Supported Supported
Operational
Reporting the IP address(es) of the Ingress controller into Ingress resources Supported Supported Supported
Extended Status Supported via a third-party module Not supported Supported
Prometheus Integration Supported Supported Supported
Dynamic reconfiguration of endpoints (no configuration reloading) Supported with a third-party Lua module Not supported Supported