Ingress Controller in K8s

Introduction

✍️ Today you will learn about ingress controllers in Kubernetes.

Prerequisite

✍️ An understanding of Kubernetes and its networking concepts.

Use Case

You can use ingress controllers to route the traffic to the pods in a Kubernetes cluster.
You can use ingress controllers to route the traffic to the pods based on the host name and path and TLS.

Cloud Research

I went through the official documentation to learn more about ingress controllers.
There are many ingress controllers available. You can use the one that suits your needs. You can find the list of ingress controllers here.
I deployed an ingress controller in my Kubernetes cluster using the following command:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/controller-v0.44.0/deploy/static/provider/cloud/deploy.yaml

You can find the latest version of the ingress controller here.

I created a service and a deployment for a pod and exposed the service using the ingress controller. I was able to access the pod using the host name and path.
I went through the official documentation to learn more about TLS.

☁️ Cloud Outcome

I was able to deploy an ingress controller in my Kubernetes cluster and access the pod using the host name and path.

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