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Handling ingress in Kubenetes

Handling ingress in Kubenetes - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Handling ingress in Kubenetes

- [Narrator] So far, we've seen how to get workers running, expose them to other services within the cluster, and to the outside world. But the way we expose them wasn't very sophisticated. Even services of type load balancer, we end up with one IP address per service. And any traffic that hits that IP, gets forwarded directly onto the pots of the service. If we were doing this in a traditional infrastructure, we wouldn't have our services directly exposed to the internet like that. And in a world of microservices, our API service or even our website might have lots of different paths served by lots of separate microservices. So traditionally, we deploy a reverse proxy into the flow. Nginx, varnish, maybe a physical F5 box, something like that. These systems allow us to route HTTP traffic based on its path, to do authentication, to set cause headers, all kinds of things that are what's called application level operations,…

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