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NGINX Ingress Controller vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

NGINX Ingress Controller
Ranking in Container Management
18th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat OpenShift Container...
Ranking in Container Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of NGINX Ingress Controller is 1.7%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 15.7%, down from 22.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform15.7%
NGINX Ingress Controller1.7%
Other82.6%
Container Management
 

Featured Reviews

MuthukaruppasamyR - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network At Dxc Technology Professional at DXC Technology
Reverse proxy and security controls have provided flexible access and strong TLS protection
I have utilized NGINX Ingress Controller SSL and TLS termination feature. We have done extensive SSL offloading on NGINX Ingress Controller and made the TLS configurations to match security requirements, allowing certain TLS versions while disabling others such as 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2, and allowing 1.3. The choice depends upon the application requirement. The reverse proxy capabilities of NGINX Ingress Controller in managing distributed applications is central to its main concept. We need to configure it to allow the server to access the outside world and the internet. That is achievable, and we can install and configure NGINX Ingress Controller as a reverse proxy. It can work as a load balancer, but the main part is NGINX Ingress Controller's role as a reverse proxy. If any applications need to be accessed through the proxy to the outside world, then NGINX Ingress Controller is a good product for you. I employ the IP whitelisting feature in NGINX Ingress Controller, which helps secure my application environment. In IP whitelisting, there are several options available. You can determine which IPs to block, for example, if you do not want to give access to specific regions. You can find the list of IP addresses registered in those regions and blacklist them. There is also the web application firewall (WAF) where you can create policies to identify the type of traffic trying to access the application.
NM
Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa
Consistent performance impresses users while technical support needs improvement
I definitely recommend Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to other organizations due to its high availability, security, ease of use, and all the built-in features it offers. We do no maintenance for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform since ROSA is fully managed, and that's why it is a bit more expensive than EKS. The fully managed service includes 24/7 support, scheduling, and upgrades; we only need to inform Red Hat support about upgrades, and they manage the process end to end. Overall, I rate Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as a nine; although I would say ten, I think it's important to allow room for improvement.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"NGINX Ingress Controller has positively impacted my organization by helping us with exposing our applications and managing security and auto-scaling."
"However, the response, throughput, and solid performance we receive after implementation are often worth it."
"The main benefit is that it is better in performance, provides security with App Protect and WAF and DDoS, and delivers high performance and high stability."
"From my experience, I think the main benefit NGINX Ingress Controller provides to the end user is the reliability of NGINX Ingress Controller itself."
"Dashboards... give us all the details we need to see about the microservices."
"The solution is stable, however, it depends on the integrations of the solution on how stable it will be, such as what tools you integrate with."
"The auto scalability feature, which is based on smart agendas, determined from pre-prepared rules is the most valuable feature. You can also create different routes for deployment. Deployment types can be provided with an identifier, such as an ARB deployment. This really helped in rolling out releases without disrupting services for the end-users."
"You should map the requirements of the solution that you're looking for before jumping into a container platform, but if you are looking for a container platform, OpenShift is a good option."
"The best feature is the management for the port life cycle, which automatically recycles, pulls, and scales up and down based on needs and requests."
"Everything is packaged into OpenShift Container Platform, whereas with Kubernetes, you have to create many operators."
"I think it's a pretty scalable tool...The solution's technical support has been pretty good."
"Technical support from Red Hat is very good."
 

Cons

"Nowadays, the quality has been degrading, and I do not expect the same level of service."
"However, there is still a major limitation in GUI capability to manage and observe."
"Most customers are satisfied with the reverse proxy capability, but the main issue is that the Ingress NGINX, the one that is most widely used, will be deprecated this month."
"One challenge is that sometimes it may be difficult to find the answers to your questions if you are not a Red Hat customer."
"The solution needs to introduce open ID connect integration for role-based access control."
"Metrics monitoring feature needs improvement."
"At the outset, the initial setup was not easy. The learning curve is always there."
"It is difficult to deploy the OpenShift cluster in a bare-metal environment."
"The stability needs improvement."
"There should be a simplification of the overall cluster environment. Just to run a simple Hello World app, it requires about seven servers, and that's just crazy."
"One area for product improvement is the support limitations within the subscription models, particularly the restricted support hours for lower-tier subscriptions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"OpenShift pricing varies by region. For example, a simple cluster with three nodes in DAL-10 might cost around $560 to $580 per month, subject to specific configurations like memory and CPU cores."
"It largely depends on how much money they earn from the application being deployed; you don't normally deploy an app just for the purpose of having it. You must constantly look into your revenue and how much you spend every container, minute, or hour of how much it is working."
"It depends on who you're talking to. For a large corporation, it is acceptable, other than the significant infrastructure requirements. For a small organization, it is in no way suitable, and we'd go for Amazon's container solution."
"We paid for Cloud Pak for integration. It all depends on how many VMs or how many CPUs you are using. They do the licensing based on that."
"I'm an architect, so I have no involvement in the pricing and licensing of the platform."
"The product pricing is competitive and structured around vCPU subscriptions, aligning with our application requirements."
"The pricing is expensive for licensing."
"If you buy the product for a year or three, you get a lot of discounts...I feel that the product is worth its cost, especially since setting it up can be done with just a few clicks."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

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Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise40
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Ingress Controller?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good. The pricing was expensive at first, but throughout the journey, it became feasible.
What needs improvement with NGINX Ingress Controller?
In my opinion, NGINX Ingress Controller can make better improvements for ingress control, and I think they are already the leader in the Ingress and Gateway API. The Gateway API has the capability ...
What is your primary use case for NGINX Ingress Controller?
I am currently working with NGINX Ingress Controller but in a different perspective than before. We haven't used App Protect anymore, but as an implementer, we use it as a front end for an AI gatew...
Which is better - OpenShift Container Platform or VMware Tanzu Mission Control?
Red Hat Openshift is ideal for organizations using microservices and cloud environments. I like that the platform is auto-scalable, which saves overhead time for developers. I think Openshift can b...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenShift Container Platform?
Regarding whether Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is expensive or if the price is reasonable for my customers, to me, the services it provides should incur some costs, but based on market feed...
What needs improvement with OpenShift Container Platform?
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform needs some improvements, for example, in upgrade time, as normally, an extended upgrade method should be allowed, but sometimes if anyone clicks twice, it tries...
 

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