Kubernetes: Ingress controllers

An API object that manages external access to the services in a cluster, typically HTTP. Ingress can provide load balancing, SSL termination and name-based virtual hosting. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/

Available Ingress controllers:

• Nginx
• Traefik

Changes:

• v1.18 New pathType resources: Exact, Prefix
• Ingresses can specify the class they are associated with by using a new ingressClassName field on Ingresses

• PathType: ImplementationSpecific(default), Exact, Prefix https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#path-types

• IngressClass resource

Related terms

• minikube addons enable ingress
• Kong: kubectl edit ingresses.extensions kong-proxy
• kind: Ingress
• Egress
• Istio service mesh
• kubectl get ingress
• kubectl api-resources

Activities

• CKA v1.18: Know how to use Ingress rules
• Read Improvements to the Ingress API in Kubernetes 1.18 https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/04/02/improvements-to-the-ingress-api-in-kubernetes-1.18/

See also

• Ingress controllers, NGINX Ingress Controller, minikube addons enable ingress, kubectl get ingress, kubectl get ingressclass, kubectl describe ingress, Ingress:, Ingress API, AWS Load Balancer Controller, Envoy Proxy, GKE Ingress, Kubernetes Gateway API, ingress.k8s.aws, ingresses.networking.k8s.io, kind: Ingress: ( tls:, hosts: )
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