# NGINX Ingress Controller

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-ingress-controller/  
**Provider:** NGINX — https://apis.io/providers/nginx/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/nginx/kubernetes-ingress

NGINX Ingress Controller is one of 32 APIs that [NGINX](https://apis.io/providers/nginx/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Cloud-Native, Ingress, Kubernetes, and Traffic Management. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, and a GitHub repository.

The NGINX Ingress Controller is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller built on NGINX that manages external access to services in a Kubernetes cluster. It supports TLS termination, path-based routing, rate limiting, and advanced traffic management through annotations and custom resources.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingress-controller/
- **GettingStarted** — https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingress-controller/installation/installing-nic/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/nginx/kubernetes-ingress

## Other NGINX APIs (12)

- [NGINX](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx/)
- [NGINX Gateway Fabric](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric/)
- [NGINX Agent](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-agent/)
- [NGINX Connections API](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-connections-api/)
- [NGINX General Info API](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-general-info-api/)
- [NGINX HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-http-api/)
- [NGINX HTTP Caches API](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-http-caches-api/)
- [NGINX HTTP Keyvals API](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-http-keyvals-api/)
- [NGINX HTTP Limit Conns API](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-http-limit-conns-api/)
- [NGINX HTTP Limit Reqs API](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-http-limit-reqs-api/)
- [NGINX HTTP Location Zones API](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-http-location-zones-api/)
- [NGINX HTTP Requests API](https://apis.io/apis/nginx/nginx-http-requests-api/)

## Tags

Cloud-Native, Ingress, Kubernetes, Traffic Management

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