How kubernetes know that a Reverse-Proxy is for Ingress, and not just a simple web app?

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Hi Kubernetes Community :slight_smile:

Today, i installed an Ingress (Nginx) and i asked myself : “How Kubernetes know that this deployment/DaemonSet is for an ingress resource, and not just a simple web app ?”.

I don’t understand how kubernetes deals with that, because i just created some srvices accounts, and then I lauched a daemonSet. I didn’t inform explicitly Kubernetes to use that nginx as Ingress, but he knows How it works ?

Thanks for help to understand that point.

Have a nice day :slight_smile:

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Hey there :slight_smile:

My understanding of Ingress inner working is as follows;

When we deploy an ingress ‘controller’ - here its Nginx ingress controller - the controller will be watching K8S API for ‘Ingress’ objects. The moment it sees an Ingress object that is been applied using a yaml ; the ingress controller will grab that object attributes and make modification on its configuration. When we hit the Ingress service IP , the controller will route that traffic based on the attributes that we applied using the yaml.

Let me know if that makes sense.

Thanks

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Hi,
Thanks for your answer. That make sense ! :slight_smile:

So, when we install an Ingress Controller (Nginx, Traefik, … ) through deployments/DaemonSet, they contact the API server and self-register to the list of available Ingress controllers. Then, they watch for Kubernetes Ingress Resource in ETCD (Normal Controller role).

OK, fine.

Thanks a lot ansilh ! :slight_smile: