Setting the Scene for Ingress
Explore the role of Kubernetes Ingress in managing external traffic routing efficiently. Learn how Ingress consolidates multiple services behind a single cloud load balancer, addressing limits of NodePort and LoadBalancer services. Gain insight into host and path-based routing to better expose applications in a Kubernetes cluster.
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You’ll need a working knowledge of Kubernetes Services before reading this chapter. If you don’t already have it, consider going back and reading about Services first.
We’ll capitalize Ingress as it’s a resource in the Kubernetes API. We’ll also be using the terms LoadBalancer and load balancer as follows:
LoadBalancer...