Performance Testing NGINX Ingress Controller and Red Hat OpenShift Router
Performance Testing NGINX Ingress Controller and Red Hat OpenShift Router Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) is one of the most popular managed Kubernetes platforms, and like its competitors, OCP includes default traffic management tooling to help users get started quickly. The OCP Router – based on HAProxy – is the default entry point for OCP clusters. It can load balance HTTP and WebSocket traffic, supports TLS termination and TLS between the Router and application instances, and can load balance TLS connections in a passthrough mode. Customers often ask us, “Why should I use NGINX Ingress Controller in OpenShift when the Router is available for free?” In Why You Need an Enterprise‑Grade Ingress Controller on OpenShift, guest blogger Max Mortillaro of GigaOm shares some qualitative reasons you might want to use NGINX Ingress Controller: advanced traffic management, ease of use, JWT validation, and [ more… ]