kubernetes-ingress-controller VS kanban-board

Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes

Here you go! https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/issues/729

The key to handling modern dynamic, scalable workloads in Kubernetes is a networking stack that can deliver API management, a service mesh and an ingress controller. Kong Ingress Controller allows users to manage the routing rules that control external user access to the service in a Kubernetes cluster from the same platform.

For those organizations using Kubernetes for their container orchestration, Kong created the Kong Ingress Controller which implements authentication, transformations, and other functionalities (via plugins) across Kubernetes clusters. Kong Ingress Controller updates a standard Kubernetes implementation as shown below:

This article will walk through how easy it is to set up the open source Kong Ingress Controller as a Kubernetes API gateway on a cluster.

But here is the tricky part. There are lots of Ingress Controllers available. Some of them are opensource, but some of them are paid one. For this project I’ve chosen an “official” Kubernetes Ingress Controller based on Nginx. But please be not confused with another one, also based on Nginx but created by NGINX Inc - this one is paid. Apart from these both there are also other* Ingress Controller*s available like Kong Ingress, or Traefik.

For demonstration purposes I’m using my recent project - Kanban-app, which is a Java (Spring Boot) based REST application.

Above picture presents the target solution. Inside the cluster there will be deployed frontend (kanban-ui) and backend (kanban-app) services together with postgres database. A source code for both microservices can be found in my GitHub repository — kanban-board.

The answer to this question is in the configuration file of Nginx server, included in the Docker image of kanban-ui — default.conf.

Kanban Board — is a simple implementation of a kanban board, tool that was first introduced in Toyota automotive and now it’s widely used software development for managing tasks. If you want to know more about it go check What is a Kanban Board? video to help you understand it basic concept.