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About the F5 NGINX Ingress Controller

The F5 NGINX Ingress Controller is an enterprise-grade solution for managing external access to services within a Kubernetes cluster. It acts as a high-performance reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, leveraging the power and flexibility of NGINX (both open-source and NGINX Plus). It simplifies traffic management, enhances security, and improves the scalability of cloud-native applications in Kubernetes and containerized environments. Key features include advanced traffic routing, load balancing (Layer 4 and Layer 7), SSL/TLS termination, robust security with integration options for F5 NGINX App Protect WAF and DoS, OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, API gateway capabilities, and comprehensive observability (Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry traces, detailed logging). It is designed for production-ready, scalable deployments and provides strong integration with Kubernetes APIs.