Ingress Controllers: The More the Merrier

3 years ago thenewstack.io

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Just like everything in the software development space, especially in today’s cloud native world, fragmentation is everywhere. As with any single category of tool — service meshes, orchestrators and observability tools — you will find multiple “brands” and variations of each tool being used in most organizations. We can identify two main causes for such fragmentation: One is deliberate, and the other is not. Let’s talk about the non-deliberate cause first and how that relates to my own service mesh company Traefik.

Another important driver of ingress controller fragmentation is that in many organizations, Ops spins up a cluster using their ingress controller of choice.

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