Jump right into Kubernetes development with career-focused lessons and hands-on practice.

DevOps for Developers

Kubernetes is a powerful container management tool that's taking the world by storm. This detailed course will help you master it.

In this course, you'll start with the fundamentals of Kubernetes and what the main components of a cluster look like. You'll then learn how to use those components to build, test, deploy, and upgrade applications, as well as how to achieve state persistence once your application is deployed. You'll also learn how to secure your deployments and manage resources, which are crucial DevOps skills.

By the time you're done, you'll have a firm grasp on what Kubernetes is, as well as the skills to deploy your own clusters and applications with confidence.

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

# Summary

In this chapter, we explored some of the essential functions of Ingress resources and controllers. To be more concrete, we examined almost all those functions 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 suggest that you explore SSL setup yourself once you decide 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 the [NGINX Ingress controller](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/master/README.md) documentation in more detail. Specifically, we suggest that you pay close attention to its [annotations](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/master/docs/user-guide/nginx-configuration/annotations.md).

Review what we’ve learned so far and what we will learn next.


What's Next?

Review what we’ve learned so far and what we will learn next.