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The Kubernetes Bible
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This section will explain how Ingress can be used to supply advanced networking and mechanisms of traffic routing in Kubernetes. Fundamentally, an Ingress is a reverse proxy Kubernetes resource. It will route incoming requests from outside of the cluster to services inside of the cluster based on rules specified in the ingress configuration. A single entry may be used to allow external users to access applications deployed within the cluster.
Before we look at Ingress and its resources, let’s do a quick recap of the various Kubernetes service types that we have used to access applications.
In Chapter 8, Exposing Your Pods with Services, you learned about the Service objects that can be used to expose Pods to load-balanced traffic, both internal as well as external. Internally, they are implemented as virtual IP addresses managed by kube-proxy at each of the Nodes. We are going to do a quick...