NGINX Ingress on Kubernetes

https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/kubernetes-ingress-controller/

By default, pods of Kubernetes services are not accessible from the external network, but only by other pods within the Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes has a built‑in configuration for HTTP load balancing, called Ingress, that defines rules for external connectivity to Kubernetes services.

The Ingress controller can then automatically program a frontend load balancer to enable Ingress configuration. The NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes is what enables Kubernetes to configure NGINX and NGINX Plus for load balancing Kubernetes services.

Deploy Ingress NGINX

https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/deploy/

First, we'll need to initialize our user as a cluster-admin with the following command:

kubectl create clusterrolebinding cluster-admin-binding \
  --clusterrole cluster-admin \
  --user $(gcloud config get-value account)

Now we can deploy to our cluster via:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/master/deploy/static/mandatory.yaml

Running a check on the service might show a Pending status:

alexvallejo:showcase-mde$ kubectl get pods -n ingress-nginx
NAME                                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nginx-ingress-controller-7b887b65b7-d99kh   0/1     Pending   0          22m

Quick Google search shows a potential fix that should address that:

https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/4775#issuecomment-558381452

kubectl label node --all kubernetes.io/os=linux

https://blog.rcmmd.com/www-to-non-www-with-kubernetes/

To the Ingress service yml:

annotations:
      nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: 'true'

      // this is the required part
      nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/from-to-www-redirect: 'true'

More Resources:

https://devopscube.com/setup-ingress-kubernetes-nginx-controller/

https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/nginx-ingress-gke

https://medium.com/google-cloud/setting-up-google-cloud-with-kubernetes-nginx-ingress-and-lets-encrypt-certmanager-bf134b7e406e

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48763805/does-gke-support-nginx-ingress-with-static-ip