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NGINX Ingress Controller vs. VMware Avi Load Balancer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NGINX Ingress Controller
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
NGINX Ingress Controller is a traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.N/A
VMware Avi Load Balancer
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
AVI Load balancer is a solution to Simplify application delivery with software-defined load balancers, web application firewall, and container ingress services for any application in any data center and cloud. It is available standalone and is now also available as an add-on to VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NGINX Ingress ControllerVMware Avi Load Balancer
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
NGINX Ingress ControllerVMware Avi Load Balancer
Considered Both Products
NGINX Ingress Controller
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose NGINX Ingress Controller
We are already using NGINX which is so reliable, it definitely lends weight to our decision to select NGINX Ingress Controller. Also, even though it is a little more complex to manage, NGINX Ingress Controller definitely have a richer feature set, better performance, caching, …
VMware Avi Load Balancer

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Features
NGINX Ingress ControllerVMware Avi Load Balancer
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
NGINX Ingress Controller
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
VMware Avi Load Balancer
-
Ratings
Security and Isolation7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Discovery Tools8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.6 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
NGINX Ingress ControllerVMware Avi Load Balancer
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
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-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NGINX Ingress ControllerVMware Avi Load Balancer
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited if we have to manage external traffic inside your Kubernetes cluster and want to use granular control to your applications.
AS
Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
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Pros
  • Provide access to containers
  • Manage traffic
  • Route traffic
  • Lightweight
  • Near to zero downtime
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • Its not related to Ingress functionality but certificate management with cloud vendor would be a feature i would like to see.
AS
Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
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Alternatives Considered
We are already using NGINX which is so reliable, it definitely lends weight to our decision to select NGINX Ingress Controller. Also, even though it is a little more complex to manage, NGINX Ingress Controller definitely have a richer feature set, better performance, caching, traffic management among other features which was why it was chosen.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Security is one of the best objective which we achieve with NGINX Ingress
  • Cost optimization is one of the business objective
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Amit Setia
Senior Engineer]
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