Kubernetes is a powerful tool. It can help you manage complex applications and provide you with the ability to easily automate tasks involved in managing them. In this course, we will start exploring Kubernetes from a beginner's standpoint. We will discuss what Kubernetes is and what it does, and we will work with some of the basic functionality of Kubernetes hands-on. We will build a simple Kubernetes cluster. We will also deploy a sample microservice application to the cluster in order to explore how Kubernetes can help easily manage such applications.

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

# Summary

We explored some of the essential functions of Ingress resources and Controllers. To be more concrete, we examined almost all those that are defined in the Ingress API.

One notable feature we did not explore is TLS configuration. Without it, our services cannot serve HTTPS requests. To enable it, we'd need to configure Ingress to offload SSL certificates.

There are two reasons we did not explore TLS. For one, we do not have a valid SSL certificate. On top of that, we did not yet study Kubernetes Secrets. We'd suggest you to explore SSL setup yourself once you make a decision which Ingress controller to use. Secrets, on the other hand, will be explained soon.

We'll explore other Ingress Controllers once we move our cluster to "real" servers that we'll create with one of the hosting vendors. Until then, you might benefit from reading [NGINX Ingress Controller](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/master/README.md) documentation in more detail. Specifically, I suggest you pay close attention to its [annotations](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/master/docs/user-guide/nginx-configuration/annotations.md).

This lesson summarises what we have explored so far and what we are going to learn next.

What's Next?

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