Back to basics: accessing Kubernetes pods

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  • kubernetes-ingress

    NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes

  • It's implementation-dependent and implementations offer different features, e.g., Nginx, Traefik, HAProxy, etc.

  • metallb

    A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols

  • -- MetalLB

  • InfluxDB

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  • traefik

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  • It's implementation-dependent and implementations offer different features, e.g., Nginx, Traefik, HAProxy, etc.

  • kind

    Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

  • For the sake of the demo, I'll be using Kind:

  • haproxy-ingress

    HAProxy Ingress

  • It's implementation-dependent and implementations offer different features, e.g., Nginx, Traefik, HAProxy, etc.

  • gateway-api

    Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs.

  • In this post, I've described several ways to access pods outside the cluster: NodePort and LoadBalancer services and Ingress. For Ingress, you may have noticed that the ApisixRoute object is a proprietary CRD. To avoid it, Kubernetes aims to provide an abstraction; the CNCF is working on a Gateway API project.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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