ingress-nginx/examples

Ingress examples

A catalog of examples on how to run, configure and scale Ingress.

Basic cross platform

Name	Description	Platform	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

TLS

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

Scaling

Name	Description	Platform	Complexity Level
Daemonset	run multiple controllers in a daemonset	nginx	Intermediate
Deployment	run multiple controllers as a deployment	nginx	Intermediate
Multi-zone	bridge different zones in a single cluster	gce	Intermediate
Static-ip	a single ingress gets a single static ip	*	Intermediate
Geo-routing	route to geographically closest endpoint	nginx	Advanced
Multi-cluster	bridge Kubernetes clusters with Ingress	gce	Advanced

Algorithms

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

Routing

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

Auth

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

Protocols

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