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Using Ingress

Using Ingress

- In this video, we'll explore Ingress. So, Ingress can be used as an advanced load balancer to provide access to applications. And Ingress provides rules that allow for redirection of traffic in a specific direction. Ingress takes care of HTTP/HTTPS traffic only, and that makes it a little bit limited. If you want to implement Ingress, an Ingress controller is needed. And Ingress controllers are provided by the ecosystem. That means that they are not a part of your default Kubernetes distribution, and probably, you need to install them. The NGINX Ingress controller is commonly used. Now, how do we configure Minikube Ingress? Well, in order to configure Ingress in general, you need to follow the instructions that are applied by your specific ecosystem Ingress controller. Minikube, as well as other Kubernetes distributions, provide easy Ingress access using a Minikube addon. And you can use minikube addon enable ingress to enable it. And without it, there will be no working of Ingress.…

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