# F5 Container Ingress Services Reviews
**Vendor:** F5  
**Category:** [Container Orchestration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-orchestration)  
**Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 3
## About F5 Container Ingress Services
F5® Container Ingress Services (CIS) makes it easy to deliver application services to your container deployments, enabling Ingress control of HTTP routing, load balancing, application delivery performance, and robust security services. Container Ingress Services integrates BIG-IP solutions with native container environments, such as Kubernetes, and PaaS container orchestration and management systems, such as RedHat OpenShift.




## F5 Container Ingress Services Reviews
  ### 1. F5 Container Ingress Services Review

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2021

**What do you like best about F5 Container Ingress Services?**

F5 Container Ingress Services is open source. Hence, it becomes easy to customize and integrate with various Kubernetes distros - on-premise or cloud.

In general, deploying and managing containerized applications is a complex task.  F5 Container Ingress Services makes it simple and provides easy manageability. Also this supports advanced features like traffic splitting which helps in rapid application release testing.

We can also use inbuilt or custom policies for better control, and there are no additional network components required for http routing, load balancing etc.

**What do you dislike about F5 Container Ingress Services?**

It will be good if it supports more native integrations and additional capabilities.

**Recommendations to others considering F5 Container Ingress Services:**

It helps in cloud-native application strategy.

**What problems is F5 Container Ingress Services solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Using F5 Container Ingress Service for deploying containerized applications.

Leveraging same for application blue/green deployment and management using policies.

  ### 2. Very easy to configure. Automated event discovery and app services inserting is nice feature.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2021

**What do you like best about F5 Container Ingress Services?**

Automated event discovery and app services inserting is nice feature.

**What do you dislike about F5 Container Ingress Services?**

Pricing. If it'll opensource it will be good.

**Recommendations to others considering F5 Container Ingress Services:**

Na

**What problems is F5 Container Ingress Services solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Exposed services to world. Very easy Integration.

  ### 3. Perfect Service For Containerizations

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2021

**What do you like best about F5 Container Ingress Services?**

Administration along with ease of pod management

**What do you dislike about F5 Container Ingress Services?**

Visibility and monitoring should be enhanced

**What problems is F5 Container Ingress Services solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Creating highly available and scalable infrastructure


## F5 Container Ingress Services Discussions
  - [What is F5 Ingress?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-f5-ingress) - 1 comment

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