Types of ingress

There are a couple different types of ingress, such as the following:

  • Single service ingress: This strategy exposes a single service via creating an ingress with a default backend that has no rules. You can alternatively use Service.Type=LoadBalancer or Service.Type=NodePort, or a port proxy to accomplish something similar.
  • Fanout: Given that od IP addressing is only available internally to the Kubernetes network, you'll need to use a simple fanout strategy in order to accommodate edge traffic and provide ingress to the correct endpoints in your cluster. This will resemble a load balancer in practice.
  • Name-based hosting: This approach is similar to service name indication (SNI), which allows a web server to present multiple ...

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