Ingress

Before you start

Prepare your environment for this section:

~$reset-environment

Kubernetes Ingress is an API resource that allows you to manage external or internal HTTP(S) access to Kubernetes services running in a cluster. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancer (ALB) is a popular AWS service that load balances incoming traffic at the application layer (layer 7) across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, in a region. ALB supports multiple features including host or path based routing, TLS (Transport Layer Security) termination, WebSockets, HTTP/2, AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) integration, integrated access logs, and health checks.

In this lab exercise, we'll expose our sample application using an ALB with the Kubernetes ingress model.