ingress-nginx與nginx ingress不是一個東西

看了兩週的文檔才發現 Ingress-NginxNginx Ingress 不是同一個東西, 兩者的功能和實現方式都不一樣. 並且還有指導遷移的文檔.

Ingress-NGINX 是社區版, 參與討論的人數更多, 搜索到的答案更多. NGINX Ingress 是商業版, 功能更多, 但是社區參與度更低.

根據 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 可以通過 NGINX Open Source 免費使用. 付費客戶可以通過 NGINX Plus 訪問 NGINX Ingress Controller.

另外 nginx 的商業版官網已遷移至www.f5.com

Nginx Ingress Controller 的產品頁在https://www.f5.com/products/nginx/nginx-ingress-controller

這篇 2021.05 的博文對比了它們的區別: 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