ingress-nginx/examples

Ingress examples

This directory contains a catalog of examples on how to run, configure and scale Ingress. Please review the prerequisites before trying them.

Basic cross platform

Name	Description	Complexity Level
Deployment	basic deployment of controllers	Beginner
TLS termination	terminate TLS at the ingress controller	Beginner
Name based virtual hosting	Host header routing	Beginner
Path routing	URL regex routing	Beginner
Health checking	configure/optimize health checks	Intermediate
Pipeline	pipeline cloud and nginx	Advanced

AWS

Name	Description	Complexity Level
AWS	basic deployment	Intermediate

TLS

Name	Description	Complexity Level
LetsEncrypt	acquire certs via ACME protocol	Intermediate
Intermediate certs	terminate TLS with intermediate certs	Advanced
Client certs	client cert authentication	Advanced
Re-encrypty	terminate, apply routing rules, re-encrypt	Advanced

Scaling

Name	Description	Complexity Level
Daemonset	run multiple controllers in a daemonset	Intermediate
Deployment	run multiple controllers as a deployment	Intermediate
Static-ip	a single ingress gets a single static ip	Intermediate
Geo-routing	route to geographically closest endpoint	Advanced

Algorithms

Name	Description	Complexity Level
Session stickyness	route requests consistently to the same endpoint	Advanced
Least connections	route requests based on least connections	Advanced
Weights	route requests to backends based on weights	Advanced

Routing

Name	Description	Complexity Level
Redirects	send a 301 re-direct	Intermediate
URL-rewriting	re-write path	Intermediate
SNI + HTTP	HTTP routing based on SNI hostname	Advanced
SNI + TCP	TLS routing based on SNI hostname	Advanced

Auth

Name	Description	Complexity Level
Basic auth	password protect your website	nginx
External auth plugin	defer to an external auth service	Intermediate

Protocols

Name	Description	Complexity Level
TCP	TCP loadbalancing	Intermediate
UDP	UDP loadbalancing	Intermediate
Websockets	websockets loadbalancing	Intermediate
HTTP/2	HTTP/2 loadbalancing	Intermediate
Proxy protocol	leverage the proxy protocol for source IP	Advanced

Custom controllers

Name	Description	Complexity Level
Dummy	A simple dummy controller that logs updates	Advanced

Customization

Name	Description	Complexity Level
custom-headers	set custom headers before send traffic to backends	Advanced
configuration-snippets	customize nginx location configuration using annotations	Advanced

RBAC

Name	Description	Complexity Level
rbac	Configuring Role Base Access Control	intermediate