ingress-nginx can be used for many use cases, inside various cloud providers and supports a lot of configurations. In this section you can find a common usage scenario where a single load balancer powered by ingress-nginx will route traffic to 2 different HTTP backend services based on the host name.
First of all follow the instructions to install ingress-nginx. Then imagine that you need to expose 2 HTTP services already installed, myServiceA
, myServiceB
, and configured as type: ClusterIP
.
Let's say that you want to expose the first at myServiceA.foo.org
and the second at myServiceB.foo.org
.
If the cluster version is < 1.19, you can create two ingress resources like this:
`apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: ingress-myservicea spec: ingressClassName: nginx rules:
- host: myservicea.foo.org
http:
paths:
- path: / backend: serviceName: myservicea servicePort: 80
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: ingress-myserviceb annotations: # use the shared ingress-nginx kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx" spec: rules:
- host: myserviceb.foo.org
http:
paths:
- path: / backend: serviceName: myserviceb servicePort: 80`
If the cluster uses Kubernetes version >= 1.19.x, then its suggested to create 2 ingress resources, using yaml examples shown below. These examples are in conformity with the networking.kubernetes.io/v1
api.
`apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: ingress-myservicea spec: rules:
- host: myservicea.foo.org
http:
paths:
- path: / pathType: Prefix backend: service: name: myservicea port: number: 80 ingressClassName: nginx
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: ingress-myserviceb spec: rules:
- host: myserviceb.foo.org
http:
paths:
- path: / pathType: Prefix backend: service: name: myserviceb port: number: 80 ingressClassName: nginx`
When you apply this yaml, 2 ingress resources will be created managed by the ingress-nginx instance. Nginx is configured to automatically discover all ingress with the kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
annotation or where ingressClassName: nginx
is present. Please note that the ingress resource should be placed inside the same namespace of the backend resource.
On many cloud providers ingress-nginx will also create the corresponding Load Balancer resource. All you have to do is get the external IP and add a DNS A record
inside your DNS provider that point myservicea.foo.org and myserviceb.foo.org to the nginx external IP. Get the external IP by running:
kubectl get services -n ingress-nginx
To test inside minikube refer to this documentation: Set up Ingress on Minikube with the NGINX Ingress Controller