What is the Ingress?

The Ingress is a Kubernetes resource that lets you configure an HTTP load balancer for applications running on Kubernetes, represented by one or more Services. Such a load balancer is necessary to deliver those applications to clients outside of the Kubernetes cluster.

The Ingress resource supports the following features:

• Content-based routing:
  • Host-based routing. For example, routing requests with the host header foo.example.com to one group of services and the host header bar.example.com to another group.
  • Path-based routing. For example, routing requests with the URI that starts with /serviceA to service A and requests with the URI that starts with /serviceB to service B.

See the Ingress User Guide to learn more about the Ingress resource.

What is the Ingress Controller?

The Ingress controller is an application that runs in a cluster and configures an HTTP load balancer according to Ingress resources. The load balancer can be a software load balancer running in the cluster or a hardware or cloud load balancer running externally. Different load balancers require different Ingress controller implementations.

In the case of NGINX, the Ingress controller is deployed in a pod along with the load balancer.

Installing the Ingress Controller In AWS

1. Clone Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Manifests into server where you have kubectl

$ git clone https://github.com/MithunTechnologiesDevOps/kubernetes-ingress.git

$ cd kubernetes-ingress/deployments

2. Create a Namespace And SA

 $ kubectl apply -f common/ns-and-sa.yaml

3. Create RBAC, Default Secret And Config Map

 $ kubectl apply -f common/

4. Deploy the Ingress Controller

We include two options for deploying the Ingress controller:

• Deployment. Use a Deployment if you plan to dynamically change the number of Ingress controller replicas.
• DaemonSet. Use a DaemonSet for deploying the Ingress controller on every node or a subset of nodes.

4.1 Create a DaemonSet

When you run the Ingress Controller by using a DaemonSet, Kubernetes will create an Ingress controller pod on every node of the cluster.

 $ kubectl apply -f daemon-set/nginx-ingress.yaml

5. Check that the Ingress Controller is Running

Check that the Ingress Controller is Running Run the following command to make sure that the Ingress controller pods are running:

$ kubectl get pods --namespace=nginx-ingress

6. Get Access to the Ingress Controller

If you created a daemonset, ports 80 and 443 of the Ingress controller container are mapped to the same ports of the node where the container is running. To access the Ingress controller, use those ports and an IP address of any node of the cluster where the Ingress controller is running.

6.1 Service with the Type LoadBalancer

Create a service with the type LoadBalancer. Kubernetes will allocate and configure a cloud load balancer for load balancing the Ingress controller pods.

For AWS, run:

$ kubectl apply -f service/loadbalancer-aws-elb.yaml

To get the DNS name of the ELB, run:

$ kubectl describe svc nginx-ingress --namespace=nginx-ingress

OR

kubectl get svc -n nginx-ingress 

You can resolve the DNS name into an IP address using nslookup:

$ nslookup <dns-name>

7. Ingress Resource:

5.1 Define path based or host based routing rules for your services.

Single DNS Sample with host and servcie place holders

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ingress-resource-1
spec:
  rules:
  - host: <DomainNameOne>
    http:
      paths:
      # Default Backend (Root /)
      - backend:
          serviceName: <serviceName>
          servicePort: 80

Multiple DNS Sample with hosts and servcies place holders

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ingress-resource-1
spec:
  rules:
  - host: <DomainNameOne>
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: <serviceNameOne>
          servicePort: 80
  - host: <DomainNameTwo>
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: <serviceNamTwo>
          servicePort: 80	

Path Based Routing Example

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ingress-resource-1
spec:
  rules:
  - host: springboot.example.com
    http:
      paths:
      # Default Path(/)
      - backend:
          serviceName: springboot
          servicePort: 80
      - path: /java-web-app
        backend:
          serviceName: javawebapp
          servicePort: 80	

Make sure you have services created in K8's with type ClusterIP for your applications. Which your are defining in Ingress Resource.

Uninstall the Ingress Controller

Delete the nginx-ingress namespace to uninstall the Ingress controller along with all the auxiliary resources that were created:

$ kubectl delete namespace nginx-ingress

Note: If RBAC is enabled on your cluster and you completed step 2, you will need to remove the ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding created in that step:

$ kubectl delete clusterrole nginx-ingress
$ kubectl delete clusterrolebinding nginx-ingress