4 engineers on Hacker News describe using NGINX Ingress Controller first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“funny and sad how ingress-nginx loses all users by going into maintenance mode, and once we switched we dont care about their new project”
regret · production · brainzap · 2025-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We hit hard limits with Nginx Ingress—reload instability, high resource usage, and poor long-connection handling.”
regret · production · ToAffinity · 2025-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of the stack consists of "platform" tools, such as the ingress-nginx, external-dns, or cert-manager.”
neutral · personal · amzans · 2020-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've been forced to use the Nginx ingress controller and terminate TLS there, instead of at the GLB level”
neutral · production · lobster_johnson · 2017-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?