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F5 NGINX Controller Overview

What is F5 NGINX Controller?

GINX Controller orchestrates NGINX Plus and NGINX App Protect. Manage and monitor load balancers, API gateways, and web application firewalls at scale across any cloud, all from a single pane of glass. Use NGINX Controller to provide developers with self-service access to NGINX or for DevOps teams to define and publish real-time APIs. The NGINX Controller API Management Module is an API management solution, combining NGINX Plus as an API gateway with new control‑plane functionality. NGINX Controller is designed to empower Infrastructure & Operations and DevOps teams to define, publish, secure, monitor, and analyze APIs, without compromising performance.

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From NetOps to DevOps, modern app teams need a self‑service, API‑driven platform that integrates easily into CI/CD workflows to accelerate app deployment – whether your app has a hybrid or microservices architecture – and makes app lifecycle management easier.


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F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to optimize and secure every app and API anywhere, including on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organizations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats. For more information, go to f5.com.


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5.0 out of 5
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The best thing about F5 NGINX Controller is that it is very easy to use and configurable. One of the best feature of this is load balancing.
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It is easy to use and has excellent features which help us to use it in a easy way.It has good quality features and high configuration and easy to ...
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Taruwarsh K.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

So basically I this helps in a lot of terms like load balancing, proxying and web serving which allows consistent application delivery across different environments as it acts as a control plane which also benefits in scalability and performance optimization which is a great part for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

There are a few things which I can point out as a user that the cost is higher for the premium features when compared to open source vresions and other point it could be only for me as it is needs parctice to learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

It majorly helps me with the load balancing as the number of request are very high at a time and it manages it very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jubin B.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

F5 NGINX Controller is one of the best ingress routing solution for kubernetes clustures it will manage loadbalancing and scaling of Pods , we use to F5 NGINX Controller manage routing of our web applictaions which is built on docker container and managed with kubernetes. one of the feature i like it is that it will work with your existing kubernetes cluster with few modifications,the documentation is good and you can also get support form public communites for troubleshooting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

sometimes there were some error with docker images which caused the installation to fail

other than that everything worked well for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

we have multiple containers on a single domain which is controlled managing all routing of subdomains made easier with F5 NGINX Controller Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

Being an engineer working on a large Kubernetes Cluster, F5 NGINX Controller’s centralize management for NGINX Plus and NGINX App Protect is beneficial. It helps me to set up load balancers and API gateways and manage their deployment without the need to do it manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

The developers are unable to manage API end to end, for instance, setting precise access controls or devising unique rate limiting measures. This can yield to frequent communication between the two parties which may lead to a longer process in development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using F5 NGINX Controller, I have enhanced the productivity of my team in respecting the management of NGINX environments. It enables easy configuration management and infrastructure deployment for Kubernetes applications due to the centralized platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Himanshu P.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

I like "ehanced monitoring feature" from the F5 Nginx Controller because it provides me the valuable insights about my application performace especially when I am doing load testing.This helps me to scale my "glaCodersHouse" project and maintain high availabilty.Besides this I also love the other provided features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

I don't like the complexity or I can say the difficulty during the setup and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

The F5 NGINX Controller helped in the traffic distribution across my available serves because of each workloads was balanaced equally.This helped me to handle high traffic very gracefully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UTKARSH  G.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

The best thing about F5 NGINX Controller is that it is very easy to use and configurable. One of the best feature of this is load balancing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

There is nothing as much which i disliked about this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

F5 NGINX Controller has solved the problem of distributing the load to different servers. One of the best load balancer, i have used. this keeps my system available all time in high traffic also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhinav S.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

The most helpful feature of F5 Nginx controller is that it help to direction the requests in the load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

The only thing which is lagging in F5 Nginx Controller is that it does not provide details on the rate limiting on requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping a lot in solving the issue of giving the direction to the traffic flowing though the system over the load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SHIVAM S.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

It is easy to use and has excellent features which help us to use it in a easy way.It has good quality features and high configuration and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

All the features are goog but F5 Nginx UI can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

F5 Nginx helped me to control traffic and also enhanced the productivity of my company my managing the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepesh V.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

Ease of use to manage clusters and ease of implemenation of config files with number of features supporting load balancing, traffic management and we can frequently use it in multiple cluster environments and esy to integrate in existing projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

Need more customer support through documentation and examples for different use case scenarios and project environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better configuration and integration with kubernetes to manage clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jake T.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

The config for NGINX is highly configurable and easy to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

If you are not proficient in devops and/or networking, the options it gives you can be a little overwhelming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

It acts as a very lightweight load balancer that sits in front of our micro service integration platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Controller?

it is easy to use and maintain,enhancing uptime with robust load balancing and active health checks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Controller?

a steeper learning curve than other ingress controllers, potential complexity in initial setup, pricing structure, and occasional support delays. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Controller solving and how is that benefiting you?

managing and securing application traffic within a Kubernetes environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.