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This time, let’s provide external access via Ingress Resource. To make it work, we should deploy an Ingress Controller (choose nginx for its flexibility). To provide a traffic encryption (TLS), we will also add yet another component – cert-manager.
Let’s replace a pure IRIS with an IRIS-based application. First, download the COVID-19 application. We won’t consider a complete, continuous deployment here, just minimal steps:
Google supports its own ingress controller, GCE, which you can use in place of an nginx controller. However, it has some drawbacks, for instance, lack of rewrite rules support, at least at the moment of writing.
Also, you can use Google managed certificates in place of cert-manager. It’s handy, but initial retrieval of certificate and any updates of Ingress resources (like new path) causes a tangible downtime. Also, Google managed certificates work only with GCE, not with nginx, as noted in Managed Certificates.
Another way is using jq. For instance, viewing all top-level configuration settings: