Vendor Sheet
Enterprise-class connectivity for Kubernetes apps
F5 NGINX Ingress Controller provides production-grade Kubernetes application delivery using the NGINX data plane for routing, load balancing, security, and traffic management. It supports host-, path-, header-, and method-based routing, weighted traffic splitting for canary and blue-green releases, HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket, and dynamic configuration without dropping connections. Security capabilities include JWT validation, OAuth2 and OIDC integration, API key authentication, mTLS, RBAC, TLS termination, and optional F5 WAF and DoS protection. More than 200 metrics plus Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry integrations provide detailed observability. The solution also provides a migration path from community ingress-nginx implementations, preserving familiar annotations while adding enter
