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-controllers/
• https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/

• kind: Ingress

Available Ingress controllers

• Nginx
• Traefik
• AWS Load Balancer Controller

Changes

• GA in Release 1.19 (Aug 2020)
• v1.18 (Mar 2020) 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

• kubectl get ingress
• kubectl describe ingress
• minikube addons enable ingress
• Kong: kubectl edit ingresses.extensions kong-proxy
• Egress
• Istio service mesh
• kubectl api-resources
• Kubernetes controllers
• annotations:

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

• kubectl get ingress, kubectl describe ingress
• Ingress, minikube addons enable ingress, kubectl get ingress, Ingress:
• kubectl: [ create | delete | edit | apply | exec | get | set | rolling-update | rollout | logs | run | auth | label | version | top | diff | debug | replace | describe | config | port-forward | scale | rollout | api-resources | proxy | expose deployment | expose | get endpoints | ~/.kube/config | kubectl logs --help | kubectl --help
• Kubernetes: CKA, CKS, Kubernetes installation, Kubernetes Workloads, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, KOPS, Cloud services, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes timeline, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind: Pod, Kubernetes namespaces, Changelog/Versions, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors