Pros and cons of Traefik, NGINX, and Contour
All the ingress controllers have the basic features to expose your application, that is, they are compatible with the Ingress object in Kubernetes. So, let’s explore the pros and cons of each Ingress controller. Let’s get started with this quick comparison:
- NGINX Ingress is an ingress controller that uses NGINX to expose applications in your cluster.
- Pros: It is the most widely used ingress controller for Kubernetes. It has a lot of documentation. Developer and community support is widely available. The community behind it is bigger than Traefik and Contour.
- Cons: It can be slow compared to Envoy-based ingress controllers such as Emissary, Gloo, and Contour.
- Traefik is an ingress controller created by Traefik Labs. It has a lot of features, which can be used as plugins. It can be used to visualize your applications on a dashboard.
- Pros: It has a dashboard and a lot of documentation. It also has some service mesh capabilities...
