Merge pull request #703 from jcmoraisjr/jm-haproxy-configmap

HAProxy deployment doc improvements

examples/deployment/haproxy/README.md

@@ -12,18 +12,8 @@ they will fight for Ingresses. This includes any cloudprovider controller.
 
 This document has also the following prerequisites:
 
-* Deploy a [web app](/examples/PREREQUISITES.md#test-http-service) for testing
 * Create a [TLS secret](/examples/PREREQUISITES.md#tls-certificates) named `tls-secret` to be used as default TLS certificate
-
-The web app can be created as follow:
-
-```console
-$ kubectl run http-svc \
-  --image=gcr.io/google_containers/echoserver:1.3 \
-  --port=8080 \
-  --replicas=2 \
-  --expose
-```
+* Optional: deploy a [web app](/examples/PREREQUISITES.md#test-http-service) for testing
 
 Creating the TLS secret:
 
@@ -35,6 +25,16 @@ $ kubectl create secret tls tls-secret --cert=tls.crt --key=tls.key
 $ rm -v tls.crt tls.key
 ```
 
+The optional web app can be created as follow:
+
+```console
+$ kubectl run http-svc \
+  --image=gcr.io/google_containers/echoserver:1.3 \
+  --port=8080 \
+  --replicas=1 \
+  --expose
+```
+
 ## Default backend
 
 Deploy a default backend used to serve `404 Not Found` pages:
@@ -55,6 +55,21 @@ NAME                                       READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
 ingress-default-backend-1110790216-gqr61   1/1       Running   0          10s
 ```
 
+## Configmap
+
+Create a configmap named `haproxy-ingress`:
+
+```console
+$ kubectl create configmap haproxy-ingress
+configmap "haproxy-ingress" created
+```
+
+A configmap is used to provide global or default configuration like
+timeouts, SSL/TLS settings, a syslog service endpoint and so on. The
+configmap can be edited or replaced later in order to apply new
+configuration on a running ingress controller. All supported options
+are [here](https://github.com/jcmoraisjr/haproxy-ingress#configmap).
+
 ## Controller
 
 Deploy HAProxy Ingress:
@@ -73,7 +88,9 @@ ingress-default-backend-1110790216-gqr61   1/1       Running   0          3m
 ^C
 ```
 
-Deploy the ingress resource of our already deployed web app:
+## Testing
+
+From now the optional web app should be deployed. Deploy an ingress resource to expose this app:
 
 ```console
 $ kubectl create -f - <<EOF
@@ -93,7 +110,7 @@ spec:
 EOF
 ```
 
-Exposing the controller as a `type=NodePort` service:
+Expose the Ingress controller as a `type=NodePort` service:
 
 ```console
 $ kubectl expose deploy/haproxy-ingress --type=NodePort

examples/deployment/haproxy/haproxy-ingress.yaml

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ spec:
         args:
         - --default-backend-service=default/ingress-default-backend
         - --default-ssl-certificate=default/tls-secret
+        - --configmap=default/haproxy-ingress
         ports:
         - name: http
           containerPort: 80