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An Ingress is the [[Kubernetes API Resources Concepts#Ingress|Kubernetes API resource]] that manages access to level 4 services in a cluster.
An Ingress is the [[Kubernetes API Resources Concepts#Ingress|Kubernetes API resource]] that manages access to level 4 [[Kubernetes_Service_Concepts#Service_.28ClusterIP_Service.29|services]] in a cluster.

Revision as of 20:25, 25 September 2020

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Overview

An Ingress is a mechanism that operates at the application layer of the network stack (HTTP) and brings layer 7 features such as host and path-based routing and cookie-based session affinity to services. Ingress cooperates with services to distribute load to pods. It exposes multiple services through a single IP address, and its implementation differs fundamentally from the implementation of ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer services. The reasons to use an Ingress include:

  • One Ingress can serve multiple services, behind a single public IP address, while each LoadBalancer requires its own native load balancer, each of them requiring their own public IP address.
  • Host, paths and cookies can be used to route the request.

The Ingress mechanism consists of an Ingress controller and an Ingress resource.

Ingress Controller

The ingress controller is the process - most likely running as a pod or pods inside the Kubernetes cluster itself - that accepts the HTTP connections, distributes traffic, terminates SSL connections, etc. Some Kubernetes distributions provide an ingress controller as an "add-on". For example, minikube provides to "minikube addons enable ingress" command. If the ingress controller is not provided as add-on, it can be installed. There is a default "ingress-nginx" ingress controller that can be installed in any Kubernetes instance. More details:

ingress-nginx

Ingress API Resource

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

An Ingress is the Kubernetes API resource that manages access to level 4 services in a cluster.