agentgateway
7.5#4 in kubernetes ingress controllersFree planFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
Visitagentgateway vs F5 BIG-IP Container Ingress Services
F5 BIG-IP Container Ingress Services
5.8#13 in kubernetes ingress controllersFree planFree planAPISelf-hosted
VisitWhat both publish
| Fact | agentgateway | F5 BIG-IP Container Ingress Services |
|---|---|---|
| Intended users | The site invites tool-builders, platform engineers, and AI enthusiasts to join the community and describes the controls as suited to platform teams. | F5 identifies network architects, network operations, AppDev, DevOps, and system infrastructure teams as target customers. |
| Observability | Built-in observability exports OpenTelemetry metrics, logs and distributed traces. | BIG-IP data streams can export application and network statistics to third-party visibility and analytics tools, with Splunk given as an example. |
| Purpose | Agentgateway is an open-source HTTP and gRPC gateway for routing, securing, observing, and governing service, LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic. | CIS integrates container orchestration environments with F5 BIG-IP to dynamically create L4/L7 services and load balance traffic as container applications change. |
| Security | Listed security features include JWT and OIDC, API keys, authorization policies, TLS and mTLS with certificate rotation, and rate limiting. | F5 documents securing CIS BIG-IP credentials by storing them in HashiCorp Vault and synchronizing them to a Kubernetes Secret with External Secrets Operator. |
agentgateway plans
- agentgateway (open source)Free
F5 BIG-IP Container Ingress Services plans
- Open-source softwareFree
Pick agentgateway if…
Agentgateway is aimed at platform engineers, tool-builders, and AI enthusiasts who need self-hosted traffic controls for services, LLMs, or agent systems. It also suits platform teams seeking routing, security, and observability features in one gateway.
Pick F5 BIG-IP Container Ingress Services if…
CIS is aimed at network architects and operations teams, AppDev and DevOps teams, and system infrastructure teams managing container environments alongside BIG-IP.