NGINX Ingress Controller vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

F5 and Red Hat are both solutions in the Container Management category. F5 is ranked #18, while Red Hat is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6. F5 holds a 1.5% mindshare in CM, compared to Red Hat’s 17.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

NGINX Ingress Controller

Ranking in Container Management

18th

Average Rating

0.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.5

Number of Reviews

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

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of NGINX Ingress Controller is 1.5%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 17.5%, down from 23.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform	17.5%
NGINX Ingress Controller	1.5%
Other	81.0%

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Sukkarin Ruensukont

Information Security Engineer at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Reliability has supported AI gateway routing and currently secures LLM traffic with flexible policies

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 to separate the gateway responsible for the FQDN and certificate management. They separate this part within the gateway, and another part is the HTTP route which will load balance to the backend service. F5 has this kind of deployment for many years before the announcement of the Gateway API itself. Currently, there is no suggestion about complexities or functions that can simplify my life with NGINX Ingress Controller.

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Nelandran Moodley

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"From my experience, I think the main benefit NGINX Ingress Controller provides to the end user is the reliability of NGINX Ingress Controller itself."

"Autoscaling is an excellent feature that makes it very simple to scale our applications as required."

"The initial setup process is easy."

"The software is user-friendly and straightforward to use, which is favorable to a developer."

"Red Hat's security throughout the stack and software supply chain is good. It is a lightweight operating system. You don't have to worry about the security patches on the system. You can update the entire environment with security patches, which is a nice feature."

"The platform is easy to scale as it supports Windows worker node."

"The stack in the software supply chain is one of the main reasons that we use OpenShift. When I came to this company, we bought hardware from IBM named Bluemix, and they used ICP, which stands for IBM Cloud Private."

"Integrating the product into our existing infrastructure was easy."

"The most valuable features of OpenShift include its advanced security, integrated DNS system, built-in pipeline management with Tekton, enhanced networking routes, and dedicated platforms for DataOps and MLOps."

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Cons

"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."

"We are not big customers of Red Hat, but sometimes, we have severe bugs. We are very innovative, and sometimes, we have to wait for a long time to get proper attention. Red Hat should improve on that."

"The stability needs improvement."

"The product monitoring tool does not work for us."

"Setting up OpenShift locally can be challenging, particularly because it requires RHL Linux and has specific restrictions."

"The product could benefit from additional operators and tools integrated with OpenShift."

"The monitoring and logging could be improved."

"OpenShift needs to improve their container storage."

"The setup process is not great."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing and licensing are handled on an upper management level, and I'm not involved in that, but I understand the solution to be somewhat pricey."

"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."

"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."

"The product pricing is competitive and structured around vCPU subscriptions, aligning with our application requirements."

"We have to pay for the license."

"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."

"The pricing is a bit more expensive than expected."

"I'm an architect, so I have no involvement in the pricing and licensing of the platform."

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Financial Services Firm

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Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	40

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.

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What needs improvement with NGINX Ingress Controller?

One improvement I see for NGINX Ingress Controller is that the obvious downside is the cost, as you pay for the license on top of AWS infrastructure and the pricing is not cheap. However, compared ...

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What is your primary use case for NGINX Ingress Controller?

My main use case for NGINX Ingress Controller is as a smart traffic controller, with the built-in firewalls, DoS protections for our APIs, and better reliability under load. Whenever we need to man...

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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...

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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...

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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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Overview

NGINX Ingress Controller is a powerful tool that enables organizations to manage and route traffic to their Kubernetes clusters. It acts as a load balancer and reverses proxy for incoming traffic, allowing for efficient and secure communication between clients and backend services.

The most useful functionality of the solution is its ability to provide advanced traffic management features such as SSL termination, URL rewriting, and session persistence. By using NGINX Ingress Controller, organizations can improve the performance and reliability of their applications, reduce downtime, and enhance security.

Red Hat® OpenShift® offers a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Benefit from streamlined platform installation and upgrades from one of the enterprise Kubernetes leaders.

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Edenor, BMW, Ford, Argentine Ministry of Health

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