This guide requires you to install go 1.13 or newer.
$ cd $GOPATH/src/k8s.io/ingress-nginx
-$ dep ensure
-$ dep ensure -update
-$ dep prune
+$ go get
+$ make dep-ensure
Building
diff --git a/examples/affinity/cookie/index.html b/examples/affinity/cookie/index.html
index 62424c873..5f4055788 100644
--- a/examples/affinity/cookie/index.html
+++ b/examples/affinity/cookie/index.html
@@ -1241,6 +1241,16 @@
string (defaults to the currently matched path) |
+| nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-samesite |
+SameSite attribute to apply to the cookie |
+Browser accepted values are None, Lax, and Strict |
+
+
+| nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-conditional-samesite-none |
+Will omit SameSite=None attribute for older browsers which reject the more-recently defined SameSite=None value |
+"true" or "false" |
+
+
| nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-max-age |
Time until the cookie expires, corresponds to the Max-Age cookie directive |
number of seconds |
diff --git a/examples/affinity/cookie/ingress-samesite.yaml b/examples/affinity/cookie/ingress-samesite.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..42d1c2e2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/affinity/cookie/ingress-samesite.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Ingress
+metadata:
+ name: cookie-samesite-none
+ annotations:
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity: "cookie"
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-name: "SSNONE"
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-expires: "172800"
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-max-age: "172800"
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-samesite: "None"
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-conditional-samesite-none: "true" # omits SameSite=None for older browsers which reject cookies with SameSite=None
+spec:
+ rules:
+ - host: stickyingress-samesite-none.example.com
+ http:
+ paths:
+ - backend:
+ serviceName: http-svc
+ servicePort: 80
+ path: /
+---
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Ingress
+metadata:
+ name: cookie-samesite-strict
+ annotations:
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity: "cookie"
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-name: "STRICTCOOKIENAME"
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-expires: "172800"
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-max-age: "172800"
+ nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-samesite: "Strict"
+spec:
+ rules:
+ - host: stickyingress-samesite-strict.example.com
+ http:
+ paths:
+ - backend:
+ serviceName: http-svc
+ servicePort: 80
+ path: /
diff --git a/examples/auth/oauth-external-auth/index.html b/examples/auth/oauth-external-auth/index.html
index bea4267d8..1d0bdde53 100644
--- a/examples/auth/oauth-external-auth/index.html
+++ b/examples/auth/oauth-external-auth/index.html
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ into a Kubernetes cluster and use it to protect the Kubernetes Dashboard using g
OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_SECRET with the github <Client Secret>
-OAUTH2_PROXY_COOKIE_SECRET with value of python -c 'import os,base64; print base64.b64encode(os.urandom(16))'
+OAUTH2_PROXY_COOKIE_SECRET with value of python -c 'import os,base64; print(base64.b64encode(os.urandom(16)).decode("ascii"))'
Customize the contents of the file dashboard-ingress.yaml:
diff --git a/search/search_index.json b/search/search_index.json
index 90c3286a7..becf866b9 100644
--- a/search/search_index.json
+++ b/search/search_index.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
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Then run kubectl ingress-nginx --help to make sure the plugin is properly installed and to get a list of commands: kubectl ingress-nginx --help A kubectl plugin for inspecting your ingress-nginx deployments Usage: ingress-nginx [command] Available Commands: backends Inspect the dynamic backend information of an ingress-nginx instance certs Output the certificate data stored in an ingress-nginx pod conf Inspect the generated nginx.conf exec Execute a command inside an ingress-nginx pod general Inspect the other dynamic ingress-nginx information help Help about any command info Show information about the ingress-nginx service ingresses Provide a short summary of all of the ingress definitions lint Inspect kubernetes resources for possible issues logs Get the kubernetes logs for an ingress-nginx pod ssh ssh into a running ingress-nginx pod Flags: --as string Username to impersonate for the operation --as-group stringArray Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups. --cache-dir string Default HTTP cache directory (default \"/Users/alexkursell/.kube/http-cache\") --certificate-authority string Path to a cert file for the certificate authority --client-certificate string Path to a client certificate file for TLS --client-key string Path to a client key file for TLS --cluster string The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use --context string The name of the kubeconfig context to use -h, --help help for ingress-nginx --insecure-skip-tls-verify If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure --kubeconfig string Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests. -n, --namespace string If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request --request-timeout string The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests. (default \"0\") -s, --server string The address and port of the Kubernetes API server --token string Bearer token for authentication to the API server --user string The name of the kubeconfig user to use Use \"ingress-nginx [command] --help\" for more information about a command. If a new ingress-nginx version has just been released, the plugin may not yet have been updated inside the repository. In that case, you can install the latest version of the plugin by running: ( set -x; cd \"$(mktemp -d)\" && curl -fsSLO \"https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/releases/download/nginx-0.24.0/{ingress-nginx.yaml,kubectl-ingress_nginx-$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-amd64.tar.gz}\" && kubectl krew install \\ --manifest=ingress-nginx.yaml --archive=kubectl-ingress_nginx-$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-amd64.tar.gz ) Replacing 0.24.0 with the recently released version. Common Flags \u00b6 Every subcommand supports the basic kubectl configuration flags like --namespace , --context , --client-key and so on. Subcommands that act on a particular ingress-nginx pod ( backends , certs , conf , exec , general , logs , ssh ), support the --deployment and --pod flags to select either a pod from a deployment with the given name, or a pod with the given name. The --deployment flag defaults to nginx-ingress-controller . Subcommands that inspect resources ( ingresses , lint ) support the --all-namespaces flag, which causes them to inspect resources in every namespace. Subcommands \u00b6 Note that backends , general , certs , and conf require ingress-nginx version 0.23.0 or higher. backends \u00b6 Run kubectl ingress-nginx backends to get a JSON array of the backends that an ingress-nginx controller currently knows about: $ kubectl ingress-nginx backends -n ingress-nginx [ { \"name\": \"default-apple-service-5678\", \"service\": { \"metadata\": { \"creationTimestamp\": null }, \"spec\": { \"ports\": [ { \"protocol\": \"TCP\", \"port\": 5678, \"targetPort\": 5678 } ], \"selector\": { \"app\": \"apple\" }, \"clusterIP\": \"10.97.230.121\", \"type\": \"ClusterIP\", \"sessionAffinity\": \"None\" }, \"status\": { \"loadBalancer\": {} } }, \"port\": 0, \"sslPassthrough\": false, \"endpoints\": [ { \"address\": \"10.1.3.86\", \"port\": \"5678\" } ], \"sessionAffinityConfig\": { \"name\": \"\", \"cookieSessionAffinity\": { \"name\": \"\" } }, \"upstreamHashByConfig\": { \"upstream-hash-by-subset-size\": 3 }, \"noServer\": false, \"trafficShapingPolicy\": { \"weight\": 0, \"header\": \"\", \"headerValue\": \"\", \"cookie\": \"\" } }, { \"name\": \"default-echo-service-8080\", ... }, { \"name\": \"upstream-default-backend\", ... } ] Add the --list option to show only the backend names. Add the --backend option to show only the backend with the given name. certs \u00b6 Use kubectl ingress-nginx certs --host to dump the SSL cert/key information for a given host. Requires that --enable-dynamic-certificates is true (this is the default as of version 0.24.0 ). WARNING: This command will dump sensitive private key information. Don't blindly share the output, and certainly don't log it anywhere. $ kubectl ingress-nginx certs -n ingress-nginx --host testaddr.local -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ... -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ... -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- conf \u00b6 Use kubectl ingress-nginx conf to dump the generated nginx.conf file. Add the --host option to view only the server block for that host: kubectl ingress-nginx conf -n ingress-nginx --host testaddr.local server { server_name testaddr.local ; listen 80; set $proxy_upstream_name \"-\"; set $pass_access_scheme $scheme; set $pass_server_port $server_port; set $best_http_host $http_host; set $pass_port $pass_server_port; location / { set $namespace \"\"; set $ingress_name \"\"; set $service_name \"\"; set $service_port \"0\"; set $location_path \"/\"; ... exec \u00b6 kubectl ingress-nginx exec is exactly the same as kubectl exec , with the same command flags. It will automatically choose an ingress-nginx pod to run the command in. $ kubectl ingress-nginx exec -i -n ingress-nginx -- ls /etc/nginx fastcgi_params geoip lua mime.types modsecurity modules nginx.conf opentracing.json owasp-modsecurity-crs template general \u00b6 kubectl ingress-nginx general dumps miscellaneous controller state as a JSON object. Currently it just shows the number of controller pods known to a particular controller pod. $ kubectl ingress-nginx general -n ingress-nginx { \"controllerPodsCount\": 1 } info \u00b6 Shows the internal and external IP/CNAMES for an ingress-nginx service. $ kubectl ingress-nginx info -n ingress-nginx Service cluster IP address: 10.187.253.31 LoadBalancer IP|CNAME: 35.123.123.123 Use the --service flag if your ingress-nginx LoadBalancer service is not named ingress-nginx . ingresses \u00b6 kubectl ingress-nginx ingresses , alternately kubectl ingress-nginx ing , shows a more detailed view of the ingress definitions in a namespace. Compare: $ kubectl get ingresses --all-namespaces NAMESPACE NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS AGE default example-ingress1 testaddr.local,testaddr2.local localhost 80 5d default test-ingress-2 * localhost 80 5d vs $ kubectl ingress-nginx ingresses --all-namespaces NAMESPACE INGRESS NAME HOST+PATH ADDRESSES TLS SERVICE SERVICE PORT ENDPOINTS default example-ingress1 testaddr.local/etameta localhost NO pear-service 5678 5 default example-ingress1 testaddr2.local/otherpath localhost NO apple-service 5678 1 default example-ingress1 testaddr2.local/otherotherpath localhost NO pear-service 5678 5 default test-ingress-2 * localhost NO echo-service 8080 2 lint \u00b6 kubectl ingress-nginx lint can check a namespace or entire cluster for potential configuration issues. This command is especially useful when upgrading between ingress-nginx versions. $ kubectl ingress-nginx lint --all-namespaces --verbose Checking ingresses... \u2717 anamespace/this-nginx - Contains the removed session-cookie-hash annotation. Lint added for version 0.24.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3743 \u2717 othernamespace/ingress-definition-blah - The rewrite-target annotation value does not reference a capture group Lint added for version 0.22.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3174 Checking deployments... \u2717 namespace2/nginx-ingress-controller - Uses removed config flag --sort-backends Lint added for version 0.22.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3655 - Uses removed config flag --enable-dynamic-certificates Lint added for version 0.24.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3808 to show the lints added only for a particular ingress-nginx release, use the --from-version and --to-version flags: $ kubectl ingress-nginx lint --all-namespaces --verbose --from-version 0 .24.0 --to-version 0 .24.0 Checking ingresses... \u2717 anamespace/this-nginx - Contains the removed session-cookie-hash annotation. Lint added for version 0.24.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3743 Checking deployments... \u2717 namespace2/nginx-ingress-controller - Uses removed config flag --enable-dynamic-certificates Lint added for version 0.24.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3808 logs \u00b6 kubectl ingress-nginx logs is almost the same as kubectl logs , with fewer flags. It will automatically choose an ingress-nginx pod to read logs from. $ kubectl ingress-nginx logs -n ingress-nginx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NGINX Ingress controller Release: dev Build: git-48dc3a867 Repository: git@github.com:kubernetes/ingress-nginx.git ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W0405 16:53:46.061589 7 flags.go:214] SSL certificate chain completion is disabled (--enable-ssl-chain-completion=false) nginx version: nginx/1.15.9 W0405 16:53:46.070093 7 client_config.go:549] Neither --kubeconfig nor --master was specified. Using the inClusterConfig. This might not work. I0405 16:53:46.070499 7 main.go:205] Creating API client for https://10.96.0.1:443 I0405 16:53:46.077784 7 main.go:249] Running in Kubernetes cluster version v1.10 (v1.10.11) - git (clean) commit 637c7e288581ee40ab4ca210618a89a555b6e7e9 - platform linux/amd64 I0405 16:53:46.183359 7 nginx.go:265] Starting NGINX Ingress controller I0405 16:53:46.193913 7 event.go:209] Event(v1.ObjectReference{Kind:\"ConfigMap\", Namespace:\"ingress-nginx\", Name:\"udp-services\", UID:\"82258915-563e-11e9-9c52-025000000001\", APIVersion:\"v1\", ResourceVersion:\"494\", FieldPath:\"\"}): type: 'Normal' reason: 'CREATE' ConfigMap ingress-nginx/udp-services ... ssh \u00b6 kubectl ingress-nginx ssh is exactly the same as kubectl ingress-nginx exec -it -- /bin/bash . 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Then run kubectl ingress-nginx --help to make sure the plugin is properly installed and to get a list of commands: kubectl ingress-nginx --help A kubectl plugin for inspecting your ingress-nginx deployments Usage: ingress-nginx [command] Available Commands: backends Inspect the dynamic backend information of an ingress-nginx instance certs Output the certificate data stored in an ingress-nginx pod conf Inspect the generated nginx.conf exec Execute a command inside an ingress-nginx pod general Inspect the other dynamic ingress-nginx information help Help about any command info Show information about the ingress-nginx service ingresses Provide a short summary of all of the ingress definitions lint Inspect kubernetes resources for possible issues logs Get the kubernetes logs for an ingress-nginx pod ssh ssh into a running ingress-nginx pod Flags: --as string Username to impersonate for the operation --as-group stringArray Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups. --cache-dir string Default HTTP cache directory (default \"/Users/alexkursell/.kube/http-cache\") --certificate-authority string Path to a cert file for the certificate authority --client-certificate string Path to a client certificate file for TLS --client-key string Path to a client key file for TLS --cluster string The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use --context string The name of the kubeconfig context to use -h, --help help for ingress-nginx --insecure-skip-tls-verify If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure --kubeconfig string Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests. -n, --namespace string If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request --request-timeout string The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests. (default \"0\") -s, --server string The address and port of the Kubernetes API server --token string Bearer token for authentication to the API server --user string The name of the kubeconfig user to use Use \"ingress-nginx [command] --help\" for more information about a command. If a new ingress-nginx version has just been released, the plugin may not yet have been updated inside the repository. In that case, you can install the latest version of the plugin by running: ( set -x; cd \"$(mktemp -d)\" && curl -fsSLO \"https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/releases/download/nginx-0.24.0/{ingress-nginx.yaml,kubectl-ingress_nginx-$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-amd64.tar.gz}\" && kubectl krew install \\ --manifest=ingress-nginx.yaml --archive=kubectl-ingress_nginx-$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-amd64.tar.gz ) Replacing 0.24.0 with the recently released version.","title":"Installation"},{"location":"kubectl-plugin/#common-flags","text":"Every subcommand supports the basic kubectl configuration flags like --namespace , --context , --client-key and so on. Subcommands that act on a particular ingress-nginx pod ( backends , certs , conf , exec , general , logs , ssh ), support the --deployment and --pod flags to select either a pod from a deployment with the given name, or a pod with the given name. The --deployment flag defaults to nginx-ingress-controller . 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Add the --backend option to show only the backend with the given name.","title":"backends"},{"location":"kubectl-plugin/#certs","text":"Use kubectl ingress-nginx certs --host to dump the SSL cert/key information for a given host. Requires that --enable-dynamic-certificates is true (this is the default as of version 0.24.0 ). WARNING: This command will dump sensitive private key information. Don't blindly share the output, and certainly don't log it anywhere. $ kubectl ingress-nginx certs -n ingress-nginx --host testaddr.local -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ... -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ... -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----","title":"certs"},{"location":"kubectl-plugin/#conf","text":"Use kubectl ingress-nginx conf to dump the generated nginx.conf file. Add the --host option to view only the server block for that host: kubectl ingress-nginx conf -n ingress-nginx --host testaddr.local server { server_name testaddr.local ; listen 80; set $proxy_upstream_name \"-\"; set $pass_access_scheme $scheme; set $pass_server_port $server_port; set $best_http_host $http_host; set $pass_port $pass_server_port; location / { set $namespace \"\"; set $ingress_name \"\"; set $service_name \"\"; set $service_port \"0\"; set $location_path \"/\"; ...","title":"conf"},{"location":"kubectl-plugin/#exec","text":"kubectl ingress-nginx exec is exactly the same as kubectl exec , with the same command flags. 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This command is especially useful when upgrading between ingress-nginx versions. $ kubectl ingress-nginx lint --all-namespaces --verbose Checking ingresses... \u2717 anamespace/this-nginx - Contains the removed session-cookie-hash annotation. Lint added for version 0.24.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3743 \u2717 othernamespace/ingress-definition-blah - The rewrite-target annotation value does not reference a capture group Lint added for version 0.22.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3174 Checking deployments... \u2717 namespace2/nginx-ingress-controller - Uses removed config flag --sort-backends Lint added for version 0.22.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3655 - Uses removed config flag --enable-dynamic-certificates Lint added for version 0.24.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3808 to show the lints added only for a particular ingress-nginx release, use the --from-version and --to-version flags: $ kubectl ingress-nginx lint --all-namespaces --verbose --from-version 0 .24.0 --to-version 0 .24.0 Checking ingresses... \u2717 anamespace/this-nginx - Contains the removed session-cookie-hash annotation. Lint added for version 0.24.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3743 Checking deployments... \u2717 namespace2/nginx-ingress-controller - Uses removed config flag --enable-dynamic-certificates Lint added for version 0.24.0 https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/3808","title":"lint"},{"location":"kubectl-plugin/#logs","text":"kubectl ingress-nginx logs is almost the same as kubectl logs , with fewer flags. It will automatically choose an ingress-nginx pod to read logs from. $ kubectl ingress-nginx logs -n ingress-nginx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NGINX Ingress controller Release: dev Build: git-48dc3a867 Repository: git@github.com:kubernetes/ingress-nginx.git ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W0405 16:53:46.061589 7 flags.go:214] SSL certificate chain completion is disabled (--enable-ssl-chain-completion=false) nginx version: nginx/1.15.9 W0405 16:53:46.070093 7 client_config.go:549] Neither --kubeconfig nor --master was specified. Using the inClusterConfig. This might not work. I0405 16:53:46.070499 7 main.go:205] Creating API client for https://10.96.0.1:443 I0405 16:53:46.077784 7 main.go:249] Running in Kubernetes cluster version v1.10 (v1.10.11) - git (clean) commit 637c7e288581ee40ab4ca210618a89a555b6e7e9 - platform linux/amd64 I0405 16:53:46.183359 7 nginx.go:265] Starting NGINX Ingress controller I0405 16:53:46.193913 7 event.go:209] Event(v1.ObjectReference{Kind:\"ConfigMap\", Namespace:\"ingress-nginx\", Name:\"udp-services\", UID:\"82258915-563e-11e9-9c52-025000000001\", APIVersion:\"v1\", ResourceVersion:\"494\", FieldPath:\"\"}): type: 'Normal' reason: 'CREATE' ConfigMap ingress-nginx/udp-services ...","title":"logs"},{"location":"kubectl-plugin/#ssh","text":"kubectl ingress-nginx ssh is exactly the same as kubectl ingress-nginx exec -it -- /bin/bash . Use it when you want to quickly be dropped into a shell inside a running ingress-nginx container. $ kubectl ingress-nginx ssh -n ingress-nginx www-data@nginx-ingress-controller-7cbf77c976-wx5pn:/etc/nginx$","title":"ssh"},{"location":"troubleshooting/","text":"Troubleshooting \u00b6 Ingress-Controller Logs and Events \u00b6 There are many ways to troubleshoot the ingress-controller. The following are basic troubleshooting methods to obtain more information. Check the Ingress Resource Events $ kubectl get ing -n NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS AGE cafe-ingress cafe.com 10.0.2.15 80 25s $ kubectl describe ing -n Name: cafe-ingress Namespace: default Address: 10.0.2.15 Default backend: default-http-backend:80 (172.17.0.5:8080) Rules: Host Path Backends ---- ---- -------- cafe.com /tea tea-svc:80 () /coffee coffee-svc:80 () Annotations: kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: {\"apiVersion\":\"networking.k8s.io/v1beta1\",\"kind\":\"Ingress\",\"metadata\":{\"annotations\":{},\"name\":\"cafe-ingress\",\"namespace\":\"default\",\"selfLink\":\"/apis/networking/v1beta1/namespaces/default/ingresses/cafe-ingress\"},\"spec\":{\"rules\":[{\"host\":\"cafe.com\",\"http\":{\"paths\":[{\"backend\":{\"serviceName\":\"tea-svc\",\"servicePort\":80},\"path\":\"/tea\"},{\"backend\":{\"serviceName\":\"coffee-svc\",\"servicePort\":80},\"path\":\"/coffee\"}]}}]},\"status\":{\"loadBalancer\":{\"ingress\":[{\"ip\":\"169.48.142.110\"}]}}} Events: Type Reason Age From Message ---- ------ ---- ---- ------- Normal CREATE 1m nginx-ingress-controller Ingress default/cafe-ingress Normal UPDATE 58s nginx-ingress-controller Ingress default/cafe-ingress Check the Ingress Controller Logs $ kubectl get pods -n NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-fv58j 1/1 Running 0 1m $ kubectl logs -n nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-fv58j ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NGINX Ingress controller Release: 0.14.0 Build: git-734361d Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .... Check the Nginx Configuration $ kubectl get pods -n NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-fv58j 1/1 Running 0 1m $ kubectl exec -it -n nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-fv58j cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf daemon off; worker_processes 2; pid /run/nginx.pid; worker_rlimit_nofile 523264; worker_shutdown_timeout 240s; events { multi_accept on; worker_connections 16384; use epoll; } http { .... Check if used Services Exist $ kubectl get svc --all-namespaces NAMESPACE NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE default coffee-svc ClusterIP 10.106.154.35 80/TCP 18m default kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 443/TCP 30m default tea-svc ClusterIP 10.104.172.12 80/TCP 18m kube-system default-http-backend NodePort 10.108.189.236 80:30001/TCP 30m kube-system kube-dns ClusterIP 10.96.0.10 53/UDP,53/TCP 30m kube-system kubernetes-dashboard NodePort 10.103.128.17 80:30000/TCP 30m Debug Logging \u00b6 Using the flag --v=XX it is possible to increase the level of logging. This is performed by editing the deployment. $ kubectl get deploy -n NAME DESIRED CURRENT UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE default-http-backend 1 1 1 1 35m nginx-ingress-controller 1 1 1 1 35m $ kubectl edit deploy -n nginx-ingress-controller # Add --v = X to \"- args\" , where X is an integer --v=2 shows details using diff about the changes in the configuration in nginx --v=3 shows details about the service, Ingress rule, endpoint changes and it dumps the nginx configuration in JSON format --v=5 configures NGINX in debug mode Authentication to the Kubernetes API Server \u00b6 A number of components are involved in the authentication process and the first step is to narrow down the source of the problem, namely whether it is a problem with service authentication or with the kubeconfig file. Both authentications must work: +-------------+ service +------------+ | | authentication | | + apiserver +<-------------------+ ingress | | | | controller | +-------------+ +------------+ Service authentication The Ingress controller needs information from apiserver. Therefore, authentication is required, which can be achieved in two different ways: Service Account: This is recommended, because nothing has to be configured. The Ingress controller will use information provided by the system to communicate with the API server. See 'Service Account' section for details. Kubeconfig file: In some Kubernetes environments service accounts are not available. In this case a manual configuration is required. The Ingress controller binary can be started with the --kubeconfig flag. The value of the flag is a path to a file specifying how to connect to the API server. Using the --kubeconfig does not requires the flag --apiserver-host . The format of the file is identical to ~/.kube/config which is used by kubectl to connect to the API server. See 'kubeconfig' section for details. Using the flag --apiserver-host : Using this flag --apiserver-host=http://localhost:8080 it is possible to specify an unsecured API server or reach a remote kubernetes cluster using kubectl proxy . Please do not use this approach in production. In the diagram below you can see the full authentication flow with all options, starting with the browser on the lower left hand side. Kubernetes Workstation +---------------------------------------------------+ +------------------+ | | | | | +-----------+ apiserver +------------+ | | +------------+ | | | | proxy | | | | | | | | | apiserver | | ingress | | | | ingress | | | | | | controller | | | | controller | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | service account/ | | | | | | | | | | kubeconfig | | | | | | | | | +<-------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+----+ kubeconfig +------+-----+ | | +------+-----+ | | |<--------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | +---------------------------------------------------+ +------------------+ Service Account \u00b6 If using a service account to connect to the API server, Dashboard expects the file /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token to be present. It provides a secret token that is required to authenticate with the API server. Verify with the following commands: # start a container that contains curl $ kubectl run test --image = tutum/curl -- sleep 10000 # check that container is running $ kubectl get pods NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE test-701078429-s5kca 1/1 Running 0 16s # check if secret exists $ kubectl exec test-701078429-s5kca ls /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ ca.crt namespace token # get service IP of master $ kubectl get services NAME CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE kubernetes 10.0.0.1 443/TCP 1d # check base connectivity from cluster inside $ kubectl exec test-701078429-s5kca -- curl -k https://10.0.0.1 Unauthorized # connect using tokens $ TOKEN_VALUE = $( kubectl exec test-701078429-s5kca -- cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token ) $ echo $TOKEN_VALUE eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3Mi....9A $ kubectl exec test-701078429-s5kca -- curl --cacert /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN_VALUE \" https://10.0.0.1 { \"paths\": [ \"/api\", \"/api/v1\", \"/apis\", \"/apis/apps\", \"/apis/apps/v1alpha1\", \"/apis/authentication.k8s.io\", \"/apis/authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1\", \"/apis/authorization.k8s.io\", \"/apis/authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1\", \"/apis/autoscaling\", \"/apis/autoscaling/v1\", \"/apis/batch\", \"/apis/batch/v1\", \"/apis/batch/v2alpha1\", \"/apis/certificates.k8s.io\", \"/apis/certificates.k8s.io/v1alpha1\", \"/apis/networking\", \"/apis/networking/v1beta1\", \"/apis/policy\", \"/apis/policy/v1alpha1\", \"/apis/rbac.authorization.k8s.io\", \"/apis/rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1alpha1\", \"/apis/storage.k8s.io\", \"/apis/storage.k8s.io/v1beta1\", \"/healthz\", \"/healthz/ping\", \"/logs\", \"/metrics\", \"/swaggerapi/\", \"/ui/\", \"/version\" ] } If it is not working, there are two possible reasons: The contents of the tokens are invalid. Find the secret name with kubectl get secrets | grep service-account and delete it with kubectl delete secret . It will automatically be recreated. You have a non-standard Kubernetes installation and the file containing the token may not be present. The API server will mount a volume containing this file, but only if the API server is configured to use the ServiceAccount admission controller. If you experience this error, verify that your API server is using the ServiceAccount admission controller. If you are configuring the API server by hand, you can set this with the --admission-control parameter. Note that you should use other admission controllers as well. Before configuring this option, you should read about admission controllers. More information: User Guide: Service Accounts Cluster Administrator Guide: Managing Service Accounts Kube-Config \u00b6 If you want to use a kubeconfig file for authentication, follow the deploy procedure and add the flag --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig.yaml to the args section of the deployment. Using GDB with Nginx \u00b6 Gdb can be used to with nginx to perform a configuration dump. This allows us to see which configuration is being used, as well as older configurations. Note: The below is based on the nginx documentation . SSH into the worker $ ssh user@workerIP Obtain the Docker Container Running nginx $ docker ps | grep nginx-ingress-controller CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES d9e1d243156a quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx-ingress-controller \"/usr/bin/dumb-init \u2026\" 19 minutes ago Up 19 minutes k8s_nginx-ingress-controller_nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-mqxzt_kube-system_079f31ec-aa37-11e8-ad39-080027a227db_0 Exec into the container $ docker exec -it --user = 0 --privileged d9e1d243156a bash Make sure nginx is running in --with-debug $ nginx -V 2 > & 1 | grep -- '--with-debug' Get list of processes running on container $ ps -ef UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 20:23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dumb-init /nginx-ingres root 5 1 0 20:23 ? 00:00:05 /nginx-ingress-controller --defa root 21 5 0 20:23 ? 00:00:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/ nobody 106 21 0 20:23 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process nobody 107 21 0 20:23 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process root 172 0 0 20:43 pts/0 00:00:00 bash Attach gdb to the nginx master process $ gdb -p 21 .... Attaching to process 21 Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/nginx...done. .... (gdb) Copy and paste the following: set $cd = ngx_cycle->config_dump set $nelts = $cd.nelts set $elts = (ngx_conf_dump_t*)($cd.elts) while ($nelts-- > 0) set $name = $elts[$nelts]->name.data printf \"Dumping %s to nginx_conf.txt\\n\", $name append memory nginx_conf.txt \\ $ elts [ $nelts ] ->buffer.start $elts [ $nelts ] ->buffer.end end Quit GDB by pressing CTRL+D Open nginx_conf.txt cat nginx_conf.txt","title":"Troubleshooting"},{"location":"troubleshooting/#troubleshooting","text":"","title":"Troubleshooting"},{"location":"troubleshooting/#ingress-controller-logs-and-events","text":"There are many ways to troubleshoot the ingress-controller. The following are basic troubleshooting methods to obtain more information. Check the Ingress Resource Events $ kubectl get ing -n NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS AGE cafe-ingress cafe.com 10.0.2.15 80 25s $ kubectl describe ing -n Name: cafe-ingress Namespace: default Address: 10.0.2.15 Default backend: default-http-backend:80 (172.17.0.5:8080) Rules: Host Path Backends ---- ---- -------- cafe.com /tea tea-svc:80 () /coffee coffee-svc:80 () Annotations: kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: {\"apiVersion\":\"networking.k8s.io/v1beta1\",\"kind\":\"Ingress\",\"metadata\":{\"annotations\":{},\"name\":\"cafe-ingress\",\"namespace\":\"default\",\"selfLink\":\"/apis/networking/v1beta1/namespaces/default/ingresses/cafe-ingress\"},\"spec\":{\"rules\":[{\"host\":\"cafe.com\",\"http\":{\"paths\":[{\"backend\":{\"serviceName\":\"tea-svc\",\"servicePort\":80},\"path\":\"/tea\"},{\"backend\":{\"serviceName\":\"coffee-svc\",\"servicePort\":80},\"path\":\"/coffee\"}]}}]},\"status\":{\"loadBalancer\":{\"ingress\":[{\"ip\":\"169.48.142.110\"}]}}} Events: Type Reason Age From Message ---- ------ ---- ---- ------- Normal CREATE 1m nginx-ingress-controller Ingress default/cafe-ingress Normal UPDATE 58s nginx-ingress-controller Ingress default/cafe-ingress Check the Ingress Controller Logs $ kubectl get pods -n NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-fv58j 1/1 Running 0 1m $ kubectl logs -n nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-fv58j ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NGINX Ingress controller Release: 0.14.0 Build: git-734361d Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .... Check the Nginx Configuration $ kubectl get pods -n NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-fv58j 1/1 Running 0 1m $ kubectl exec -it -n nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-fv58j cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf daemon off; worker_processes 2; pid /run/nginx.pid; worker_rlimit_nofile 523264; worker_shutdown_timeout 240s; events { multi_accept on; worker_connections 16384; use epoll; } http { .... Check if used Services Exist $ kubectl get svc --all-namespaces NAMESPACE NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE default coffee-svc ClusterIP 10.106.154.35 80/TCP 18m default kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 443/TCP 30m default tea-svc ClusterIP 10.104.172.12 80/TCP 18m kube-system default-http-backend NodePort 10.108.189.236 80:30001/TCP 30m kube-system kube-dns ClusterIP 10.96.0.10 53/UDP,53/TCP 30m kube-system kubernetes-dashboard NodePort 10.103.128.17 80:30000/TCP 30m","title":"Ingress-Controller Logs and Events"},{"location":"troubleshooting/#debug-logging","text":"Using the flag --v=XX it is possible to increase the level of logging. This is performed by editing the deployment. $ kubectl get deploy -n NAME DESIRED CURRENT UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE default-http-backend 1 1 1 1 35m nginx-ingress-controller 1 1 1 1 35m $ kubectl edit deploy -n nginx-ingress-controller # Add --v = X to \"- args\" , where X is an integer --v=2 shows details using diff about the changes in the configuration in nginx --v=3 shows details about the service, Ingress rule, endpoint changes and it dumps the nginx configuration in JSON format --v=5 configures NGINX in debug mode","title":"Debug Logging"},{"location":"troubleshooting/#authentication-to-the-kubernetes-api-server","text":"A number of components are involved in the authentication process and the first step is to narrow down the source of the problem, namely whether it is a problem with service authentication or with the kubeconfig file. Both authentications must work: +-------------+ service +------------+ | | authentication | | + apiserver +<-------------------+ ingress | | | | controller | +-------------+ +------------+ Service authentication The Ingress controller needs information from apiserver. Therefore, authentication is required, which can be achieved in two different ways: Service Account: This is recommended, because nothing has to be configured. The Ingress controller will use information provided by the system to communicate with the API server. See 'Service Account' section for details. Kubeconfig file: In some Kubernetes environments service accounts are not available. In this case a manual configuration is required. The Ingress controller binary can be started with the --kubeconfig flag. The value of the flag is a path to a file specifying how to connect to the API server. Using the --kubeconfig does not requires the flag --apiserver-host . The format of the file is identical to ~/.kube/config which is used by kubectl to connect to the API server. See 'kubeconfig' section for details. Using the flag --apiserver-host : Using this flag --apiserver-host=http://localhost:8080 it is possible to specify an unsecured API server or reach a remote kubernetes cluster using kubectl proxy . Please do not use this approach in production. In the diagram below you can see the full authentication flow with all options, starting with the browser on the lower left hand side. Kubernetes Workstation +---------------------------------------------------+ +------------------+ | | | | | +-----------+ apiserver +------------+ | | +------------+ | | | | proxy | | | | | | | | | apiserver | | ingress | | | | ingress | | | | | | controller | | | | controller | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | service account/ | | | | | | | | | | kubeconfig | | | | | | | | | +<-------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+----+ kubeconfig +------+-----+ | | +------+-----+ | | |<--------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | +---------------------------------------------------+ +------------------+","title":"Authentication to the Kubernetes API Server"},{"location":"troubleshooting/#service-account","text":"If using a service account to connect to the API server, Dashboard expects the file /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token to be present. It provides a secret token that is required to authenticate with the API server. Verify with the following commands: # start a container that contains curl $ kubectl run test --image = tutum/curl -- sleep 10000 # check that container is running $ kubectl get pods NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE test-701078429-s5kca 1/1 Running 0 16s # check if secret exists $ kubectl exec test-701078429-s5kca ls /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ ca.crt namespace token # get service IP of master $ kubectl get services NAME CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE kubernetes 10.0.0.1 443/TCP 1d # check base connectivity from cluster inside $ kubectl exec test-701078429-s5kca -- curl -k https://10.0.0.1 Unauthorized # connect using tokens $ TOKEN_VALUE = $( kubectl exec test-701078429-s5kca -- cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token ) $ echo $TOKEN_VALUE eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3Mi....9A $ kubectl exec test-701078429-s5kca -- curl --cacert /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN_VALUE \" https://10.0.0.1 { \"paths\": [ \"/api\", \"/api/v1\", \"/apis\", \"/apis/apps\", \"/apis/apps/v1alpha1\", \"/apis/authentication.k8s.io\", \"/apis/authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1\", \"/apis/authorization.k8s.io\", \"/apis/authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1\", \"/apis/autoscaling\", \"/apis/autoscaling/v1\", \"/apis/batch\", \"/apis/batch/v1\", \"/apis/batch/v2alpha1\", \"/apis/certificates.k8s.io\", \"/apis/certificates.k8s.io/v1alpha1\", \"/apis/networking\", \"/apis/networking/v1beta1\", \"/apis/policy\", \"/apis/policy/v1alpha1\", \"/apis/rbac.authorization.k8s.io\", \"/apis/rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1alpha1\", \"/apis/storage.k8s.io\", \"/apis/storage.k8s.io/v1beta1\", \"/healthz\", \"/healthz/ping\", \"/logs\", \"/metrics\", \"/swaggerapi/\", \"/ui/\", \"/version\" ] } If it is not working, there are two possible reasons: The contents of the tokens are invalid. Find the secret name with kubectl get secrets | grep service-account and delete it with kubectl delete secret . It will automatically be recreated. You have a non-standard Kubernetes installation and the file containing the token may not be present. The API server will mount a volume containing this file, but only if the API server is configured to use the ServiceAccount admission controller. If you experience this error, verify that your API server is using the ServiceAccount admission controller. If you are configuring the API server by hand, you can set this with the --admission-control parameter. Note that you should use other admission controllers as well. Before configuring this option, you should read about admission controllers. More information: User Guide: Service Accounts Cluster Administrator Guide: Managing Service Accounts","title":"Service Account"},{"location":"troubleshooting/#kube-config","text":"If you want to use a kubeconfig file for authentication, follow the deploy procedure and add the flag --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig.yaml to the args section of the deployment.","title":"Kube-Config"},{"location":"troubleshooting/#using-gdb-with-nginx","text":"Gdb can be used to with nginx to perform a configuration dump. This allows us to see which configuration is being used, as well as older configurations. Note: The below is based on the nginx documentation . SSH into the worker $ ssh user@workerIP Obtain the Docker Container Running nginx $ docker ps | grep nginx-ingress-controller CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES d9e1d243156a quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx-ingress-controller \"/usr/bin/dumb-init \u2026\" 19 minutes ago Up 19 minutes k8s_nginx-ingress-controller_nginx-ingress-controller-67956bf89d-mqxzt_kube-system_079f31ec-aa37-11e8-ad39-080027a227db_0 Exec into the container $ docker exec -it --user = 0 --privileged d9e1d243156a bash Make sure nginx is running in --with-debug $ nginx -V 2 > & 1 | grep -- '--with-debug' Get list of processes running on container $ ps -ef UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 20:23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dumb-init /nginx-ingres root 5 1 0 20:23 ? 00:00:05 /nginx-ingress-controller --defa root 21 5 0 20:23 ? 00:00:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/ nobody 106 21 0 20:23 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process nobody 107 21 0 20:23 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process root 172 0 0 20:43 pts/0 00:00:00 bash Attach gdb to the nginx master process $ gdb -p 21 .... Attaching to process 21 Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/nginx...done. .... (gdb) Copy and paste the following: set $cd = ngx_cycle->config_dump set $nelts = $cd.nelts set $elts = (ngx_conf_dump_t*)($cd.elts) while ($nelts-- > 0) set $name = $elts[$nelts]->name.data printf \"Dumping %s to nginx_conf.txt\\n\", $name append memory nginx_conf.txt \\ $ elts [ $nelts ] ->buffer.start $elts [ $nelts ] ->buffer.end end Quit GDB by pressing CTRL+D Open nginx_conf.txt cat nginx_conf.txt","title":"Using GDB with Nginx"},{"location":"deploy/","text":"Installation Guide \u00b6 Contents \u00b6 Prerequisite Generic Deployment Command Provider Specific Steps Docker for Mac minikube AWS GCE - GKE Azure Bare-metal Verify installation Detect installed version Using Helm Prerequisite Generic Deployment Command \u00b6 Attention The default configuration watches Ingress object from all the namespaces . To change this behavior use the flag --watch-namespace to limit the scope to a particular namespace. Warning If multiple Ingresses define different paths for the same host, the ingress controller will merge the definitions. Attention If you're using GKE you need to initialize your user as a cluster-admin with the following command: kubectl create clusterrolebinding cluster-admin-binding \\ --clusterrole cluster-admin \\ --user $(gcloud config get-value account) The following Mandatory Command is required for all deployments. kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/mandatory.yaml Tip If you are using a Kubernetes version previous to 1.14, you need to change kubernetes.io/os to beta.kubernetes.io/os at line 217 of mandatory.yaml , see Labels details . Provider Specific Steps \u00b6 There are cloud provider specific yaml files. Docker for Mac \u00b6 Kubernetes is available in Docker for Mac (from version 18.06.0-ce ) Create a service kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/cloud-generic.yaml minikube \u00b6 For standard usage: minikube addons enable ingress For development: Disable the ingress addon: minikube addons disable ingress Execute make dev-env Confirm the nginx-ingress-controller deployment exists: $ kubectl get pods -n ingress-nginx NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE default-http-backend-66b447d9cf-rrlf9 1/1 Running 0 12s nginx-ingress-controller-fdcdcd6dd-vvpgs 1/1 Running 0 11s AWS \u00b6 In AWS we use an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to expose the NGINX Ingress controller behind a Service of Type=LoadBalancer . Since Kubernetes v1.9.0 it is possible to use a classic load balancer (ELB) or network load balancer (NLB) Please check the elastic load balancing AWS details page Elastic Load Balancer - ELB \u00b6 This setup requires to choose in which layer (L4 or L7) we want to configure the ELB: Layer 4 : use TCP as the listener protocol for ports 80 and 443. Layer 7 : use HTTP as the listener protocol for port 80 and terminate TLS in the ELB For L4: Check that no change is necessary with regards to the ELB idle timeout. In some scenarios, users may want to modify the ELB idle timeout, so please check the ELB Idle Timeouts section for additional information. If a change is required, users will need to update the value of service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-connection-idle-timeout in provider/aws/service-l4.yaml Then execute: kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/service-l4.yaml kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/patch-configmap-l4.yaml For L7: Change line of the file provider/aws/service-l7.yaml replacing the dummy id with a valid one \"arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:XXXXXXXX:certificate/XXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX\" Check that no change is necessary with regards to the ELB idle timeout. In some scenarios, users may want to modify the ELB idle timeout, so please check the ELB Idle Timeouts section for additional information. If a change is required, users will need to update the value of service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-connection-idle-timeout in provider/aws/service-l7.yaml Then execute: kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/service-l7.yaml kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/patch-configmap-l7.yaml This example creates an ELB with just two listeners, one in port 80 and another in port 443 ELB Idle Timeouts \u00b6 In some scenarios users will need to modify the value of the ELB idle timeout. Users need to ensure the idle timeout is less than the keepalive_timeout that is configured for NGINX. By default NGINX keepalive_timeout is set to 75s . The default ELB idle timeout will work for most scenarios, unless the NGINX keepalive_timeout has been modified, in which case service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-connection-idle-timeout will need to be modified to ensure it is less than the keepalive_timeout the user has configured. Please Note: An idle timeout of 3600s is recommended when using WebSockets. More information with regards to idle timeouts for your Load Balancer can be found in the official AWS documentation . Network Load Balancer (NLB) \u00b6 This type of load balancer is supported since v1.10.0 as an ALPHA feature. kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/service-nlb.yaml GCE-GKE \u00b6 kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/cloud-generic.yaml Important Note: proxy protocol is not supported in GCE/GKE Azure \u00b6 kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/cloud-generic.yaml Bare-metal \u00b6 Using NodePort : kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/baremetal/service-nodeport.yaml Tip For extended notes regarding deployments on bare-metal, see Bare-metal considerations . Verify installation \u00b6 To check if the ingress controller pods have started, run the following command: kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ingress-nginx --watch Once the operator pods are running, you can cancel the above command by typing Ctrl+C . Now, you are ready to create your first ingress. Detect installed version \u00b6 To detect which version of the ingress controller is running, exec into the pod and run nginx-ingress-controller version command. POD_NAMESPACE=ingress-nginx POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods -n $POD_NAMESPACE -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ingress-nginx -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') kubectl exec -it $POD_NAME -n $POD_NAMESPACE -- /nginx-ingress-controller --version Using Helm \u00b6 NGINX Ingress controller can be installed via Helm using the chart stable/nginx-ingress from the official charts repository. To install the chart with the release name my-nginx : helm install stable/nginx-ingress --name my-nginx If the kubernetes cluster has RBAC enabled, then run: helm install stable/nginx-ingress --name my-nginx --set rbac.create=true Detect installed version: POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ingress-nginx -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') kubectl exec -it $POD_NAME -- /nginx-ingress-controller --version","title":"Installation Guide"},{"location":"deploy/#installation-guide","text":"","title":"Installation Guide"},{"location":"deploy/#contents","text":"Prerequisite Generic Deployment Command Provider Specific Steps Docker for Mac minikube AWS GCE - GKE Azure Bare-metal Verify installation Detect installed version Using Helm","title":"Contents"},{"location":"deploy/#prerequisite-generic-deployment-command","text":"Attention The default configuration watches Ingress object from all the namespaces . To change this behavior use the flag --watch-namespace to limit the scope to a particular namespace. Warning If multiple Ingresses define different paths for the same host, the ingress controller will merge the definitions. Attention If you're using GKE you need to initialize your user as a cluster-admin with the following command: kubectl create clusterrolebinding cluster-admin-binding \\ --clusterrole cluster-admin \\ --user $(gcloud config get-value account) The following Mandatory Command is required for all deployments. kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/mandatory.yaml Tip If you are using a Kubernetes version previous to 1.14, you need to change kubernetes.io/os to beta.kubernetes.io/os at line 217 of mandatory.yaml , see Labels details .","title":"Prerequisite Generic Deployment Command"},{"location":"deploy/#provider-specific-steps","text":"There are cloud provider specific yaml files.","title":"Provider Specific Steps"},{"location":"deploy/#docker-for-mac","text":"Kubernetes is available in Docker for Mac (from version 18.06.0-ce ) Create a service kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/cloud-generic.yaml","title":"Docker for Mac"},{"location":"deploy/#minikube","text":"For standard usage: minikube addons enable ingress For development: Disable the ingress addon: minikube addons disable ingress Execute make dev-env Confirm the nginx-ingress-controller deployment exists: $ kubectl get pods -n ingress-nginx NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE default-http-backend-66b447d9cf-rrlf9 1/1 Running 0 12s nginx-ingress-controller-fdcdcd6dd-vvpgs 1/1 Running 0 11s","title":"minikube"},{"location":"deploy/#aws","text":"In AWS we use an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to expose the NGINX Ingress controller behind a Service of Type=LoadBalancer . Since Kubernetes v1.9.0 it is possible to use a classic load balancer (ELB) or network load balancer (NLB) Please check the elastic load balancing AWS details page","title":"AWS"},{"location":"deploy/#elastic-load-balancer-elb","text":"This setup requires to choose in which layer (L4 or L7) we want to configure the ELB: Layer 4 : use TCP as the listener protocol for ports 80 and 443. Layer 7 : use HTTP as the listener protocol for port 80 and terminate TLS in the ELB For L4: Check that no change is necessary with regards to the ELB idle timeout. In some scenarios, users may want to modify the ELB idle timeout, so please check the ELB Idle Timeouts section for additional information. If a change is required, users will need to update the value of service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-connection-idle-timeout in provider/aws/service-l4.yaml Then execute: kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/service-l4.yaml kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/patch-configmap-l4.yaml For L7: Change line of the file provider/aws/service-l7.yaml replacing the dummy id with a valid one \"arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:XXXXXXXX:certificate/XXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX\" Check that no change is necessary with regards to the ELB idle timeout. In some scenarios, users may want to modify the ELB idle timeout, so please check the ELB Idle Timeouts section for additional information. If a change is required, users will need to update the value of service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-connection-idle-timeout in provider/aws/service-l7.yaml Then execute: kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/service-l7.yaml kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/patch-configmap-l7.yaml This example creates an ELB with just two listeners, one in port 80 and another in port 443","title":"Elastic Load Balancer - ELB"},{"location":"deploy/#elb-idle-timeouts","text":"In some scenarios users will need to modify the value of the ELB idle timeout. Users need to ensure the idle timeout is less than the keepalive_timeout that is configured for NGINX. By default NGINX keepalive_timeout is set to 75s . The default ELB idle timeout will work for most scenarios, unless the NGINX keepalive_timeout has been modified, in which case service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-connection-idle-timeout will need to be modified to ensure it is less than the keepalive_timeout the user has configured. Please Note: An idle timeout of 3600s is recommended when using WebSockets. More information with regards to idle timeouts for your Load Balancer can be found in the official AWS documentation .","title":"ELB Idle Timeouts"},{"location":"deploy/#network-load-balancer-nlb","text":"This type of load balancer is supported since v1.10.0 as an ALPHA feature. kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/service-nlb.yaml","title":"Network Load Balancer (NLB)"},{"location":"deploy/#gce-gke","text":"kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/cloud-generic.yaml Important Note: proxy protocol is not supported in GCE/GKE","title":"GCE-GKE"},{"location":"deploy/#azure","text":"kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/cloud-generic.yaml","title":"Azure"},{"location":"deploy/#bare-metal","text":"Using NodePort : kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/nginx-0.28.0/deploy/static/provider/baremetal/service-nodeport.yaml Tip For extended notes regarding deployments on bare-metal, see Bare-metal considerations .","title":"Bare-metal"},{"location":"deploy/#verify-installation","text":"To check if the ingress controller pods have started, run the following command: kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ingress-nginx --watch Once the operator pods are running, you can cancel the above command by typing Ctrl+C . Now, you are ready to create your first ingress.","title":"Verify installation"},{"location":"deploy/#detect-installed-version","text":"To detect which version of the ingress controller is running, exec into the pod and run nginx-ingress-controller version command. POD_NAMESPACE=ingress-nginx POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods -n $POD_NAMESPACE -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ingress-nginx -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') kubectl exec -it $POD_NAME -n $POD_NAMESPACE -- /nginx-ingress-controller --version","title":"Detect installed version"},{"location":"deploy/#using-helm","text":"NGINX Ingress controller can be installed via Helm using the chart stable/nginx-ingress from the official charts repository. To install the chart with the release name my-nginx : helm install stable/nginx-ingress --name my-nginx If the kubernetes cluster has RBAC enabled, then run: helm install stable/nginx-ingress --name my-nginx --set rbac.create=true Detect installed version: POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ingress-nginx -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') kubectl exec -it $POD_NAME -- /nginx-ingress-controller --version","title":"Using Helm"},{"location":"deploy/baremetal/","text":"Bare-metal considerations \u00b6 In traditional cloud environments, where network load balancers are available on-demand, a single Kubernetes manifest suffices to provide a single point of contact to the NGINX Ingress controller to external clients and, indirectly, to any application running inside the cluster. Bare-metal environments lack this commodity, requiring a slightly different setup to offer the same kind of access to external consumers. The rest of this document describes a few recommended approaches to deploying the NGINX Ingress controller inside a Kubernetes cluster running on bare-metal. A pure software solution: MetalLB \u00b6 MetalLB provides a network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes clusters that do not run on a supported cloud provider, effectively allowing the usage of LoadBalancer Services within any cluster. This section demonstrates how to use the Layer 2 configuration mode of MetalLB together with the NGINX Ingress controller in a Kubernetes cluster that has publicly accessible nodes . In this mode, one node attracts all the traffic for the ingress-nginx Service IP. See Traffic policies for more details. Note The description of other supported configuration modes is off-scope for this document. Warning MetalLB is currently in beta . Read about the Project maturity and make sure you inform yourself by reading the official documentation thoroughly. MetalLB can be deployed either with a simple Kubernetes manifest or with Helm. The rest of this example assumes MetalLB was deployed following the Installation instructions. MetalLB requires a pool of IP addresses in order to be able to take ownership of the ingress-nginx Service. This pool can be defined in a ConfigMap named config located in the same namespace as the MetalLB controller. This pool of IPs must be dedicated to MetalLB's use, you can't reuse the Kubernetes node IPs or IPs handed out by a DHCP server. Example Given the following 3-node Kubernetes cluster (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 After creating the following ConfigMap, MetalLB takes ownership of one of the IP addresses in the pool and updates the loadBalancer IP field of the ingress-nginx Service accordingly. apiVersion : v1 kind : ConfigMap metadata : namespace : metallb-system name : config data : config : | address-pools: - name: default protocol: layer2 addresses: - 203.0.113.10-203.0.113.15 $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get svc NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) default-http-backend ClusterIP 10.0.64.249 80/TCP ingress-nginx LoadBalancer 10.0.220.217 203.0.113.10 80:30100/TCP,443:30101/TCP As soon as MetalLB sets the external IP address of the ingress-nginx LoadBalancer Service, the corresponding entries are created in the iptables NAT table and the node with the selected IP address starts responding to HTTP requests on the ports configured in the LoadBalancer Service: $ curl -D- http://203.0.113.3 -H 'Host: myapp.example.com' HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.15.2 Tip In order to preserve the source IP address in HTTP requests sent to NGINX, it is necessary to use the Local traffic policy. Traffic policies are described in more details in Traffic policies as well as in the next section. Over a NodePort Service \u00b6 Due to its simplicity, this is the setup a user will deploy by default when following the steps described in the installation guide . Info A Service of type NodePort exposes, via the kube-proxy component, the same unprivileged port (default: 30000-32767) on every Kubernetes node, masters included. For more information, see Services . In this configuration, the NGINX container remains isolated from the host network. As a result, it can safely bind to any port, including the standard HTTP ports 80 and 443. However, due to the container namespace isolation, a client located outside the cluster network (e.g. on the public internet) is not able to access Ingress hosts directly on ports 80 and 443. Instead, the external client must append the NodePort allocated to the ingress-nginx Service to HTTP requests. Example Given the NodePort 30100 allocated to the ingress-nginx Service $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get svc NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP PORT(S) default-http-backend ClusterIP 10.0.64.249 80/TCP ingress-nginx NodePort 10.0.220.217 80:30100/TCP,443:30101/TCP and a Kubernetes node with the public IP address 203.0.113.2 (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 a client would reach an Ingress with host : myapp . example . com at http://myapp.example.com:30100 , where the myapp.example.com subdomain resolves to the 203.0.113.2 IP address. Impact on the host system While it may sound tempting to reconfigure the NodePort range using the --service-node-port-range API server flag to include unprivileged ports and be able to expose ports 80 and 443, doing so may result in unexpected issues including (but not limited to) the use of ports otherwise reserved to system daemons and the necessity to grant kube-proxy privileges it may otherwise not require. This practice is therefore discouraged . See the other approaches proposed in this page for alternatives. This approach has a few other limitations one ought to be aware of: Source IP address Services of type NodePort perform source address translation by default. This means the source IP of a HTTP request is always the IP address of the Kubernetes node that received the request from the perspective of NGINX. The recommended way to preserve the source IP in a NodePort setup is to set the value of the externalTrafficPolicy field of the ingress-nginx Service spec to Local ( example ). Warning This setting effectively drops packets sent to Kubernetes nodes which are not running any instance of the NGINX Ingress controller. Consider assigning NGINX Pods to specific nodes in order to control on what nodes the NGINX Ingress controller should be scheduled or not scheduled. Example In a Kubernetes cluster composed of 3 nodes (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 with a nginx-ingress-controller Deployment composed of 2 replicas $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get pod -o wide NAME READY STATUS IP NODE default-http-backend-7c5bc89cc9-p86md 1/1 Running 172.17.1.1 host-2 nginx-ingress-controller-cf9ff8c96-8vvf8 1/1 Running 172.17.0.3 host-3 nginx-ingress-controller-cf9ff8c96-pxsds 1/1 Running 172.17.1.4 host-2 Requests sent to host-2 and host-3 would be forwarded to NGINX and original client's IP would be preserved, while requests to host-1 would get dropped because there is no NGINX replica running on that node. Ingress status Because NodePort Services do not get a LoadBalancerIP assigned by definition, the NGINX Ingress controller does not update the status of Ingress objects it manages . $ kubectl get ingress NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS test-ingress myapp.example.com 80 Despite the fact there is no load balancer providing a public IP address to the NGINX Ingress controller, it is possible to force the status update of all managed Ingress objects by setting the externalIPs field of the ingress-nginx Service. Warning There is more to setting externalIPs than just enabling the NGINX Ingress controller to update the status of Ingress objects. Please read about this option in the Services page of official Kubernetes documentation as well as the section about External IPs in this document for more information. Example Given the following 3-node Kubernetes cluster (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 one could edit the ingress-nginx Service and add the following field to the object spec spec : externalIPs : - 203.0.113.1 - 203.0.113.2 - 203.0.113.3 which would in turn be reflected on Ingress objects as follows: $ kubectl get ingress -o wide NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS test-ingress myapp.example.com 203.0.113.1,203.0.113.2,203.0.113.3 80 Redirects As NGINX is not aware of the port translation operated by the NodePort Service , backend applications are responsible for generating redirect URLs that take into account the URL used by external clients, including the NodePort. Example Redirects generated by NGINX, for instance HTTP to HTTPS or domain to www.domain , are generated without NodePort: $ curl -D- http://myapp.example.com:30100 ` HTTP/1.1 308 Permanent Redirect Server: nginx/1.15.2 Location: https://myapp.example.com/ #-> missing NodePort in HTTPS redirect Via the host network \u00b6 In a setup where there is no external load balancer available but using NodePorts is not an option, one can configure ingress-nginx Pods to use the network of the host they run on instead of a dedicated network namespace. The benefit of this approach is that the NGINX Ingress controller can bind ports 80 and 443 directly to Kubernetes nodes' network interfaces, without the extra network translation imposed by NodePort Services. Note This approach does not leverage any Service object to expose the NGINX Ingress controller. If the ingress-nginx Service exists in the target cluster, it is recommended to delete it . This can be achieved by enabling the hostNetwork option in the Pods' spec. template : spec : hostNetwork : true Security considerations Enabling this option exposes every system daemon to the NGINX Ingress controller on any network interface, including the host's loopback. Please evaluate the impact this may have on the security of your system carefully. Example Consider this nginx-ingress-controller Deployment composed of 2 replicas, NGINX Pods inherit from the IP address of their host instead of an internal Pod IP. $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get pod -o wide NAME READY STATUS IP NODE default-http-backend-7c5bc89cc9-p86md 1/1 Running 172.17.1.1 host-2 nginx-ingress-controller-5b4cf5fc6-7lg6c 1/1 Running 203.0.113.3 host-3 nginx-ingress-controller-5b4cf5fc6-lzrls 1/1 Running 203.0.113.2 host-2 One major limitation of this deployment approach is that only a single NGINX Ingress controller Pod may be scheduled on each cluster node, because binding the same port multiple times on the same network interface is technically impossible. Pods that are unschedulable due to such situation fail with the following event: $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx describe pod ... Events: Type Reason From Message ---- ------ ---- ------- Warning FailedScheduling default-scheduler 0/3 nodes are available: 3 node(s) didn't have free ports for the requested pod ports. One way to ensure only schedulable Pods are created is to deploy the NGINX Ingress controller as a DaemonSet instead of a traditional Deployment. Info A DaemonSet schedules exactly one type of Pod per cluster node, masters included, unless a node is configured to repel those Pods . For more information, see DaemonSet . Because most properties of DaemonSet objects are identical to Deployment objects, this documentation page leaves the configuration of the corresponding manifest at the user's discretion. Like with NodePorts, this approach has a few quirks it is important to be aware of. DNS resolution Pods configured with hostNetwork : true do not use the internal DNS resolver (i.e. kube-dns or CoreDNS ), unless their dnsPolicy spec field is set to ClusterFirstWithHostNet . Consider using this setting if NGINX is expected to resolve internal names for any reason. Ingress status Because there is no Service exposing the NGINX Ingress controller in a configuration using the host network, the default --publish-service flag used in standard cloud setups does not apply and the status of all Ingress objects remains blank. $ kubectl get ingress NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS test-ingress myapp.example.com 80 Instead, and because bare-metal nodes usually don't have an ExternalIP, one has to enable the --report-node-internal-ip-address flag, which sets the status of all Ingress objects to the internal IP address of all nodes running the NGINX Ingress controller. Example Given a nginx-ingress-controller DaemonSet composed of 2 replicas $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get pod -o wide NAME READY STATUS IP NODE default-http-backend-7c5bc89cc9-p86md 1/1 Running 172.17.1.1 host-2 nginx-ingress-controller-5b4cf5fc6-7lg6c 1/1 Running 203.0.113.3 host-3 nginx-ingress-controller-5b4cf5fc6-lzrls 1/1 Running 203.0.113.2 host-2 the controller sets the status of all Ingress objects it manages to the following value: $ kubectl get ingress -o wide NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS test-ingress myapp.example.com 203.0.113.2,203.0.113.3 80 Note Alternatively, it is possible to override the address written to Ingress objects using the --publish-status-address flag. See Command line arguments . Using a self-provisioned edge \u00b6 Similarly to cloud environments, this deployment approach requires an edge network component providing a public entrypoint to the Kubernetes cluster. This edge component can be either hardware (e.g. vendor appliance) or software (e.g. HAproxy ) and is usually managed outside of the Kubernetes landscape by operations teams. Such deployment builds upon the NodePort Service described above in Over a NodePort Service , with one significant difference: external clients do not access cluster nodes directly, only the edge component does. This is particularly suitable for private Kubernetes clusters where none of the nodes has a public IP address. On the edge side, the only prerequisite is to dedicate a public IP address that forwards all HTTP traffic to Kubernetes nodes and/or masters. Incoming traffic on TCP ports 80 and 443 is forwarded to the corresponding HTTP and HTTPS NodePort on the target nodes as shown in the diagram below: External IPs \u00b6 Source IP address This method does not allow preserving the source IP of HTTP requests in any manner, it is therefore not recommended to use it despite its apparent simplicity. The externalIPs Service option was previously mentioned in the NodePort section. As per the Services page of the official Kubernetes documentation, the externalIPs option causes kube-proxy to route traffic sent to arbitrary IP addresses and on the Service ports to the endpoints of that Service. These IP addresses must belong to the target node . Example Given the following 3-node Kubernetes cluster (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 and the following ingress-nginx NodePort Service $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get svc NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP PORT(S) ingress-nginx NodePort 10.0.220.217 80:30100/TCP,443:30101/TCP One could set the following external IPs in the Service spec, and NGINX would become available on both the NodePort and the Service port: spec : externalIPs : - 203.0.113.2 - 203.0.113.3 $ curl -D- http://myapp.example.com:30100 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.15.2 $ curl -D- http://myapp.example.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.15.2 We assume the myapp.example.com subdomain above resolves to both 203.0.113.2 and 203.0.113.3 IP addresses.","title":"Bare-metal considerations"},{"location":"deploy/baremetal/#bare-metal-considerations","text":"In traditional cloud environments, where network load balancers are available on-demand, a single Kubernetes manifest suffices to provide a single point of contact to the NGINX Ingress controller to external clients and, indirectly, to any application running inside the cluster. Bare-metal environments lack this commodity, requiring a slightly different setup to offer the same kind of access to external consumers. The rest of this document describes a few recommended approaches to deploying the NGINX Ingress controller inside a Kubernetes cluster running on bare-metal.","title":"Bare-metal considerations"},{"location":"deploy/baremetal/#a-pure-software-solution-metallb","text":"MetalLB provides a network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes clusters that do not run on a supported cloud provider, effectively allowing the usage of LoadBalancer Services within any cluster. This section demonstrates how to use the Layer 2 configuration mode of MetalLB together with the NGINX Ingress controller in a Kubernetes cluster that has publicly accessible nodes . In this mode, one node attracts all the traffic for the ingress-nginx Service IP. See Traffic policies for more details. Note The description of other supported configuration modes is off-scope for this document. Warning MetalLB is currently in beta . Read about the Project maturity and make sure you inform yourself by reading the official documentation thoroughly. MetalLB can be deployed either with a simple Kubernetes manifest or with Helm. The rest of this example assumes MetalLB was deployed following the Installation instructions. MetalLB requires a pool of IP addresses in order to be able to take ownership of the ingress-nginx Service. This pool can be defined in a ConfigMap named config located in the same namespace as the MetalLB controller. This pool of IPs must be dedicated to MetalLB's use, you can't reuse the Kubernetes node IPs or IPs handed out by a DHCP server. Example Given the following 3-node Kubernetes cluster (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 After creating the following ConfigMap, MetalLB takes ownership of one of the IP addresses in the pool and updates the loadBalancer IP field of the ingress-nginx Service accordingly. apiVersion : v1 kind : ConfigMap metadata : namespace : metallb-system name : config data : config : | address-pools: - name: default protocol: layer2 addresses: - 203.0.113.10-203.0.113.15 $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get svc NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) default-http-backend ClusterIP 10.0.64.249 80/TCP ingress-nginx LoadBalancer 10.0.220.217 203.0.113.10 80:30100/TCP,443:30101/TCP As soon as MetalLB sets the external IP address of the ingress-nginx LoadBalancer Service, the corresponding entries are created in the iptables NAT table and the node with the selected IP address starts responding to HTTP requests on the ports configured in the LoadBalancer Service: $ curl -D- http://203.0.113.3 -H 'Host: myapp.example.com' HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.15.2 Tip In order to preserve the source IP address in HTTP requests sent to NGINX, it is necessary to use the Local traffic policy. Traffic policies are described in more details in Traffic policies as well as in the next section.","title":"A pure software solution: MetalLB"},{"location":"deploy/baremetal/#over-a-nodeport-service","text":"Due to its simplicity, this is the setup a user will deploy by default when following the steps described in the installation guide . Info A Service of type NodePort exposes, via the kube-proxy component, the same unprivileged port (default: 30000-32767) on every Kubernetes node, masters included. For more information, see Services . In this configuration, the NGINX container remains isolated from the host network. As a result, it can safely bind to any port, including the standard HTTP ports 80 and 443. However, due to the container namespace isolation, a client located outside the cluster network (e.g. on the public internet) is not able to access Ingress hosts directly on ports 80 and 443. Instead, the external client must append the NodePort allocated to the ingress-nginx Service to HTTP requests. Example Given the NodePort 30100 allocated to the ingress-nginx Service $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get svc NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP PORT(S) default-http-backend ClusterIP 10.0.64.249 80/TCP ingress-nginx NodePort 10.0.220.217 80:30100/TCP,443:30101/TCP and a Kubernetes node with the public IP address 203.0.113.2 (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 a client would reach an Ingress with host : myapp . example . com at http://myapp.example.com:30100 , where the myapp.example.com subdomain resolves to the 203.0.113.2 IP address. Impact on the host system While it may sound tempting to reconfigure the NodePort range using the --service-node-port-range API server flag to include unprivileged ports and be able to expose ports 80 and 443, doing so may result in unexpected issues including (but not limited to) the use of ports otherwise reserved to system daemons and the necessity to grant kube-proxy privileges it may otherwise not require. This practice is therefore discouraged . See the other approaches proposed in this page for alternatives. This approach has a few other limitations one ought to be aware of: Source IP address Services of type NodePort perform source address translation by default. This means the source IP of a HTTP request is always the IP address of the Kubernetes node that received the request from the perspective of NGINX. The recommended way to preserve the source IP in a NodePort setup is to set the value of the externalTrafficPolicy field of the ingress-nginx Service spec to Local ( example ). Warning This setting effectively drops packets sent to Kubernetes nodes which are not running any instance of the NGINX Ingress controller. Consider assigning NGINX Pods to specific nodes in order to control on what nodes the NGINX Ingress controller should be scheduled or not scheduled. Example In a Kubernetes cluster composed of 3 nodes (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 with a nginx-ingress-controller Deployment composed of 2 replicas $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get pod -o wide NAME READY STATUS IP NODE default-http-backend-7c5bc89cc9-p86md 1/1 Running 172.17.1.1 host-2 nginx-ingress-controller-cf9ff8c96-8vvf8 1/1 Running 172.17.0.3 host-3 nginx-ingress-controller-cf9ff8c96-pxsds 1/1 Running 172.17.1.4 host-2 Requests sent to host-2 and host-3 would be forwarded to NGINX and original client's IP would be preserved, while requests to host-1 would get dropped because there is no NGINX replica running on that node. Ingress status Because NodePort Services do not get a LoadBalancerIP assigned by definition, the NGINX Ingress controller does not update the status of Ingress objects it manages . $ kubectl get ingress NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS test-ingress myapp.example.com 80 Despite the fact there is no load balancer providing a public IP address to the NGINX Ingress controller, it is possible to force the status update of all managed Ingress objects by setting the externalIPs field of the ingress-nginx Service. Warning There is more to setting externalIPs than just enabling the NGINX Ingress controller to update the status of Ingress objects. Please read about this option in the Services page of official Kubernetes documentation as well as the section about External IPs in this document for more information. Example Given the following 3-node Kubernetes cluster (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 one could edit the ingress-nginx Service and add the following field to the object spec spec : externalIPs : - 203.0.113.1 - 203.0.113.2 - 203.0.113.3 which would in turn be reflected on Ingress objects as follows: $ kubectl get ingress -o wide NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS test-ingress myapp.example.com 203.0.113.1,203.0.113.2,203.0.113.3 80 Redirects As NGINX is not aware of the port translation operated by the NodePort Service , backend applications are responsible for generating redirect URLs that take into account the URL used by external clients, including the NodePort. Example Redirects generated by NGINX, for instance HTTP to HTTPS or domain to www.domain , are generated without NodePort: $ curl -D- http://myapp.example.com:30100 ` HTTP/1.1 308 Permanent Redirect Server: nginx/1.15.2 Location: https://myapp.example.com/ #-> missing NodePort in HTTPS redirect","title":"Over a NodePort Service"},{"location":"deploy/baremetal/#via-the-host-network","text":"In a setup where there is no external load balancer available but using NodePorts is not an option, one can configure ingress-nginx Pods to use the network of the host they run on instead of a dedicated network namespace. The benefit of this approach is that the NGINX Ingress controller can bind ports 80 and 443 directly to Kubernetes nodes' network interfaces, without the extra network translation imposed by NodePort Services. Note This approach does not leverage any Service object to expose the NGINX Ingress controller. If the ingress-nginx Service exists in the target cluster, it is recommended to delete it . This can be achieved by enabling the hostNetwork option in the Pods' spec. template : spec : hostNetwork : true Security considerations Enabling this option exposes every system daemon to the NGINX Ingress controller on any network interface, including the host's loopback. Please evaluate the impact this may have on the security of your system carefully. Example Consider this nginx-ingress-controller Deployment composed of 2 replicas, NGINX Pods inherit from the IP address of their host instead of an internal Pod IP. $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get pod -o wide NAME READY STATUS IP NODE default-http-backend-7c5bc89cc9-p86md 1/1 Running 172.17.1.1 host-2 nginx-ingress-controller-5b4cf5fc6-7lg6c 1/1 Running 203.0.113.3 host-3 nginx-ingress-controller-5b4cf5fc6-lzrls 1/1 Running 203.0.113.2 host-2 One major limitation of this deployment approach is that only a single NGINX Ingress controller Pod may be scheduled on each cluster node, because binding the same port multiple times on the same network interface is technically impossible. Pods that are unschedulable due to such situation fail with the following event: $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx describe pod ... Events: Type Reason From Message ---- ------ ---- ------- Warning FailedScheduling default-scheduler 0/3 nodes are available: 3 node(s) didn't have free ports for the requested pod ports. One way to ensure only schedulable Pods are created is to deploy the NGINX Ingress controller as a DaemonSet instead of a traditional Deployment. Info A DaemonSet schedules exactly one type of Pod per cluster node, masters included, unless a node is configured to repel those Pods . For more information, see DaemonSet . Because most properties of DaemonSet objects are identical to Deployment objects, this documentation page leaves the configuration of the corresponding manifest at the user's discretion. Like with NodePorts, this approach has a few quirks it is important to be aware of. DNS resolution Pods configured with hostNetwork : true do not use the internal DNS resolver (i.e. kube-dns or CoreDNS ), unless their dnsPolicy spec field is set to ClusterFirstWithHostNet . Consider using this setting if NGINX is expected to resolve internal names for any reason. Ingress status Because there is no Service exposing the NGINX Ingress controller in a configuration using the host network, the default --publish-service flag used in standard cloud setups does not apply and the status of all Ingress objects remains blank. $ kubectl get ingress NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS test-ingress myapp.example.com 80 Instead, and because bare-metal nodes usually don't have an ExternalIP, one has to enable the --report-node-internal-ip-address flag, which sets the status of all Ingress objects to the internal IP address of all nodes running the NGINX Ingress controller. Example Given a nginx-ingress-controller DaemonSet composed of 2 replicas $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get pod -o wide NAME READY STATUS IP NODE default-http-backend-7c5bc89cc9-p86md 1/1 Running 172.17.1.1 host-2 nginx-ingress-controller-5b4cf5fc6-7lg6c 1/1 Running 203.0.113.3 host-3 nginx-ingress-controller-5b4cf5fc6-lzrls 1/1 Running 203.0.113.2 host-2 the controller sets the status of all Ingress objects it manages to the following value: $ kubectl get ingress -o wide NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS test-ingress myapp.example.com 203.0.113.2,203.0.113.3 80 Note Alternatively, it is possible to override the address written to Ingress objects using the --publish-status-address flag. See Command line arguments .","title":"Via the host network"},{"location":"deploy/baremetal/#using-a-self-provisioned-edge","text":"Similarly to cloud environments, this deployment approach requires an edge network component providing a public entrypoint to the Kubernetes cluster. This edge component can be either hardware (e.g. vendor appliance) or software (e.g. HAproxy ) and is usually managed outside of the Kubernetes landscape by operations teams. Such deployment builds upon the NodePort Service described above in Over a NodePort Service , with one significant difference: external clients do not access cluster nodes directly, only the edge component does. This is particularly suitable for private Kubernetes clusters where none of the nodes has a public IP address. On the edge side, the only prerequisite is to dedicate a public IP address that forwards all HTTP traffic to Kubernetes nodes and/or masters. Incoming traffic on TCP ports 80 and 443 is forwarded to the corresponding HTTP and HTTPS NodePort on the target nodes as shown in the diagram below:","title":"Using a self-provisioned edge"},{"location":"deploy/baremetal/#external-ips","text":"Source IP address This method does not allow preserving the source IP of HTTP requests in any manner, it is therefore not recommended to use it despite its apparent simplicity. The externalIPs Service option was previously mentioned in the NodePort section. As per the Services page of the official Kubernetes documentation, the externalIPs option causes kube-proxy to route traffic sent to arbitrary IP addresses and on the Service ports to the endpoints of that Service. These IP addresses must belong to the target node . Example Given the following 3-node Kubernetes cluster (the external IP is added as an example, in most bare-metal environments this value is ) $ kubectl get node NAME STATUS ROLES EXTERNAL-IP host-1 Ready master 203.0.113.1 host-2 Ready node 203.0.113.2 host-3 Ready node 203.0.113.3 and the following ingress-nginx NodePort Service $ kubectl -n ingress-nginx get svc NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP PORT(S) ingress-nginx NodePort 10.0.220.217 80:30100/TCP,443:30101/TCP One could set the following external IPs in the Service spec, and NGINX would become available on both the NodePort and the Service port: spec : externalIPs : - 203.0.113.2 - 203.0.113.3 $ curl -D- http://myapp.example.com:30100 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.15.2 $ curl -D- http://myapp.example.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.15.2 We assume the myapp.example.com subdomain above resolves to both 203.0.113.2 and 203.0.113.3 IP addresses.","title":"External IPs"},{"location":"deploy/rbac/","text":"Role Based Access Control (RBAC) \u00b6 Overview \u00b6 This example applies to nginx-ingress-controllers being deployed in an environment with RBAC enabled. Role Based Access Control is comprised of four layers: ClusterRole - permissions assigned to a role that apply to an entire cluster ClusterRoleBinding - binding a ClusterRole to a specific account Role - permissions assigned to a role that apply to a specific namespace RoleBinding - binding a Role to a specific account In order for RBAC to be applied to an nginx-ingress-controller, that controller should be assigned to a ServiceAccount . That ServiceAccount should be bound to the Role s and ClusterRole s defined for the nginx-ingress-controller. Service Accounts created in this example \u00b6 One ServiceAccount is created in this example, nginx-ingress-serviceaccount . Permissions Granted in this example \u00b6 There are two sets of permissions defined in this example. Cluster-wide permissions defined by the ClusterRole named nginx-ingress-clusterrole , and namespace specific permissions defined by the Role named nginx-ingress-role . Cluster Permissions \u00b6 These permissions are granted in order for the nginx-ingress-controller to be able to function as an ingress across the cluster. These permissions are granted to the ClusterRole named nginx-ingress-clusterrole configmaps , endpoints , nodes , pods , secrets : list, watch nodes : get services , ingresses : get, list, watch events : create, patch ingresses/status : update Namespace Permissions \u00b6 These permissions are granted specific to the nginx-ingress namespace. These permissions are granted to the Role named nginx-ingress-role configmaps , pods , secrets : get endpoints : get Furthermore to support leader-election, the nginx-ingress-controller needs to have access to a configmap using the resourceName ingress-controller-leader-nginx Note that resourceNames can NOT be used to limit requests using the \u201ccreate\u201d verb because authorizers only have access to information that can be obtained from the request URL, method, and headers (resource names in a \u201ccreate\u201d request are part of the request body). configmaps : get, update (for resourceName ingress-controller-leader-nginx ) configmaps : create This resourceName is the concatenation of the election-id and the ingress-class as defined by the ingress-controller, which defaults to: election-id : ingress-controller-leader ingress-class : nginx resourceName : - Please adapt accordingly if you overwrite either parameter when launching the nginx-ingress-controller. Bindings \u00b6 The ServiceAccount nginx-ingress-serviceaccount is bound to the Role nginx-ingress-role and the ClusterRole nginx-ingress-clusterrole . The serviceAccountName associated with the containers in the deployment must match the serviceAccount. The namespace references in the Deployment metadata, container arguments, and POD_NAMESPACE should be in the nginx-ingress namespace.","title":"Role Based Access Control (RBAC)"},{"location":"deploy/rbac/#role-based-access-control-rbac","text":"","title":"Role Based Access Control (RBAC)"},{"location":"deploy/rbac/#overview","text":"This example applies to nginx-ingress-controllers being deployed in an environment with RBAC enabled. Role Based Access Control is comprised of four layers: ClusterRole - permissions assigned to a role that apply to an entire cluster ClusterRoleBinding - binding a ClusterRole to a specific account Role - permissions assigned to a role that apply to a specific namespace RoleBinding - binding a Role to a specific account In order for RBAC to be applied to an nginx-ingress-controller, that controller should be assigned to a ServiceAccount . That ServiceAccount should be bound to the Role s and ClusterRole s defined for the nginx-ingress-controller.","title":"Overview"},{"location":"deploy/rbac/#service-accounts-created-in-this-example","text":"One ServiceAccount is created in this example, nginx-ingress-serviceaccount .","title":"Service Accounts created in this example"},{"location":"deploy/rbac/#permissions-granted-in-this-example","text":"There are two sets of permissions defined in this example. 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These permissions are granted to the Role named nginx-ingress-role configmaps , pods , secrets : get endpoints : get Furthermore to support leader-election, the nginx-ingress-controller needs to have access to a configmap using the resourceName ingress-controller-leader-nginx Note that resourceNames can NOT be used to limit requests using the \u201ccreate\u201d verb because authorizers only have access to information that can be obtained from the request URL, method, and headers (resource names in a \u201ccreate\u201d request are part of the request body). configmaps : get, update (for resourceName ingress-controller-leader-nginx ) configmaps : create This resourceName is the concatenation of the election-id and the ingress-class as defined by the ingress-controller, which defaults to: election-id : ingress-controller-leader ingress-class : nginx resourceName : - Please adapt accordingly if you overwrite either parameter when launching the nginx-ingress-controller.","title":"Namespace Permissions"},{"location":"deploy/rbac/#bindings","text":"The ServiceAccount nginx-ingress-serviceaccount is bound to the Role nginx-ingress-role and the ClusterRole nginx-ingress-clusterrole . The serviceAccountName associated with the containers in the deployment must match the serviceAccount. The namespace references in the Deployment metadata, container arguments, and POD_NAMESPACE should be in the nginx-ingress namespace.","title":"Bindings"},{"location":"deploy/upgrade/","text":"Upgrading \u00b6 Important No matter the method you use for upgrading, if you use template overrides, make sure your templates are compatible with the new version of ingress-nginx . Without Helm \u00b6 To upgrade your ingress-nginx installation, it should be enough to change the version of the image in the controller Deployment. I.e. if your deployment resource looks like (partial example): kind : Deployment metadata : name : nginx-ingress-controller namespace : ingress-nginx spec : replicas : 1 selector : ... template : metadata : ... spec : containers : - name : nginx-ingress-controller image : quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx-ingress-controller:0.9.0 args : ... simply change the 0.9.0 tag to the version you wish to upgrade to. The easiest way to do this is e.g. (do note you may need to change the name parameter according to your installation): kubectl set image deployment/nginx-ingress-controller \\ nginx-ingress-controller=quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx-ingress-controller:0.28.0 For interactive editing, use kubectl edit deployment nginx-ingress-controller . With Helm \u00b6 If you installed ingress-nginx using the Helm command in the deployment docs so its name is ngx-ingress , you should be able to upgrade using helm upgrade --reuse-values ngx-ingress stable/nginx-ingress","title":"Upgrade"},{"location":"deploy/upgrade/#upgrading","text":"Important No matter the method you use for upgrading, if you use template overrides, make sure your templates are compatible with the new version of ingress-nginx .","title":"Upgrading"},{"location":"deploy/upgrade/#without-helm","text":"To upgrade your ingress-nginx installation, it should be enough to change the version of the image in the controller Deployment. I.e. if your deployment resource looks like (partial example): kind : Deployment metadata : name : nginx-ingress-controller namespace : ingress-nginx spec : replicas : 1 selector : ... template : metadata : ... spec : containers : - name : nginx-ingress-controller image : quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx-ingress-controller:0.9.0 args : ... simply change the 0.9.0 tag to the version you wish to upgrade to. The easiest way to do this is e.g. (do note you may need to change the name parameter according to your installation): kubectl set image deployment/nginx-ingress-controller \\ nginx-ingress-controller=quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx-ingress-controller:0.28.0 For interactive editing, use kubectl edit deployment nginx-ingress-controller .","title":"Without Helm"},{"location":"deploy/upgrade/#with-helm","text":"If you installed ingress-nginx using the Helm command in the deployment docs so its name is ngx-ingress , you should be able to upgrade using helm upgrade --reuse-values ngx-ingress stable/nginx-ingress","title":"With Helm"},{"location":"deploy/validating-webhook/","text":"Validating webhook (admission controller) \u00b6 Overview \u00b6 Nginx ingress controller offers the option to validate ingresses before they enter the cluster, ensuring controller will generate a valid configuration. This controller is called, when ValidatingAdmissionWebhook is enabled, by the Kubernetes API server each time a new ingress is to enter the cluster, and rejects objects for which the generated nginx configuration fails to be validated. This feature requires some further configuration of the cluster, hence it is an optional feature, this section explains how to enable it for your cluster. Configure the webhook \u00b6 Generate the webhook certificate \u00b6 Self signed certificate \u00b6 Validating webhook must be served using TLS, you need to generate a certificate. Note that kube API server is checking the hostname of the certificate, the common name of your certificate will need to match the service name. Example To run the validating webhook with a service named ingress-validation-webhook in the namespace ingress-nginx , run openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout certificate.pem -out key.pem -days 365 -nodes -subj \"/CN=ingress-validation-webhook.ingress-nginx.svc\" Using Kubernetes CA \u00b6 Kubernetes also provides primitives to sign a certificate request. Here is an example on how to use it Example #!/bin/bash SERVICE_NAME = ingress-nginx NAMESPACE = ingress-nginx TEMP_DIRECTORY = $( mktemp -d ) echo \"creating certs in directory ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } \" cat <> ${TEMP_DIRECTORY}/csr.conf [req] req_extensions = v3_req distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name [req_distinguished_name] [ v3_req ] basicConstraints = CA:FALSE keyUsage = nonRepudiation, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment extendedKeyUsage = serverAuth subjectAltName = @alt_names [alt_names] DNS.1 = ${SERVICE_NAME} DNS.2 = ${SERVICE_NAME}.${NAMESPACE} DNS.3 = ${SERVICE_NAME}.${NAMESPACE}.svc EOF openssl genrsa -out ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-key.pem 2048 openssl req -new -key ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-key.pem \\ -subj \"/CN= ${ SERVICE_NAME } . ${ NAMESPACE } .svc\" \\ -out ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server.csr \\ -config ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /csr.conf cat < & 2 exit 1 fi echo ${ SERVER_CERT } | openssl base64 -d -A -out ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-cert.pem kubectl create secret generic ingress-nginx.svc \\ --from-file = key.pem = ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-key.pem \\ --from-file = cert.pem = ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-cert.pem \\ -n ${ NAMESPACE } Using helm \u00b6 To generate the certificate using helm, you can use the following snippet Example {{ - $ cn := printf \"%s.%s.svc\" ( include \"nginx-ingress.validatingWebhook.fullname\" . ) .Release.Namespace }} {{ - $ ca := genCA ( printf \"%s-ca\" ( include \"nginx-ingress.validatingWebhook.fullname\" . )) .Values.validatingWebhook.certificateValidity - }} {{ - $ cert := genSignedCert $ cn nil nil .Values.validatingWebhook.certificateValidity $ ca - }} Ingress controller flags \u00b6 To enable the feature in the ingress controller, you need to provide 3 flags to the command line. flag description example usage --validating-webhook The address to start an admission controller on :8080 --validating-webhook-certificate The certificate the webhook is using for its TLS handling /usr/local/certificates/validating-webhook.pem --validating-webhook-key The key the webhook is using for its TLS handling /usr/local/certificates/validating-webhook-key.pem kube API server flags \u00b6 Validating webhook feature requires specific setup on the kube API server side. Depending on your kubernetes version, the flag can, or not, be enabled by default. To check that your kube API server runs with the required flags, please refer to the kubernetes documentation. Additional kubernetes objects \u00b6 Once both the ingress controller and the kube API server are configured to serve the webhook, add the you can configure the webhook with the following objects: apiVersion : v1 kind : Service metadata : name : ingress-validation-webhook namespace : ingress-nginx spec : ports : - name : admission port : 443 protocol : TCP targetPort : 8080 selector : app : nginx-ingress component : controller --- apiVersion : admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1 kind : ValidatingWebhookConfiguration metadata : name : check-ingress webhooks : - name : validate.nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io rules : - apiGroups : - networking.k8s.io/v1beta1 apiVersions : - v1beta1 operations : - CREATE - UPDATE resources : - ingresses failurePolicy : Fail clientConfig : service : namespace : ingress-nginx name : ingress-validation-webhook path : /networking.k8s.io/v1beta1/ingress caBundle : ","title":"Validating Webhook (admission controller)"},{"location":"deploy/validating-webhook/#validating-webhook-admission-controller","text":"","title":"Validating webhook (admission controller)"},{"location":"deploy/validating-webhook/#overview","text":"Nginx ingress controller offers the option to validate ingresses before they enter the cluster, ensuring controller will generate a valid configuration. 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Here is an example on how to use it Example #!/bin/bash SERVICE_NAME = ingress-nginx NAMESPACE = ingress-nginx TEMP_DIRECTORY = $( mktemp -d ) echo \"creating certs in directory ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } \" cat <> ${TEMP_DIRECTORY}/csr.conf [req] req_extensions = v3_req distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name [req_distinguished_name] [ v3_req ] basicConstraints = CA:FALSE keyUsage = nonRepudiation, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment extendedKeyUsage = serverAuth subjectAltName = @alt_names [alt_names] DNS.1 = ${SERVICE_NAME} DNS.2 = ${SERVICE_NAME}.${NAMESPACE} DNS.3 = ${SERVICE_NAME}.${NAMESPACE}.svc EOF openssl genrsa -out ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-key.pem 2048 openssl req -new -key ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-key.pem \\ -subj \"/CN= ${ SERVICE_NAME } . ${ NAMESPACE } .svc\" \\ -out ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server.csr \\ -config ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /csr.conf cat < & 2 exit 1 fi echo ${ SERVER_CERT } | openssl base64 -d -A -out ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-cert.pem kubectl create secret generic ingress-nginx.svc \\ --from-file = key.pem = ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-key.pem \\ --from-file = cert.pem = ${ TEMP_DIRECTORY } /server-cert.pem \\ -n ${ NAMESPACE }","title":"Using Kubernetes CA"},{"location":"deploy/validating-webhook/#using-helm","text":"To generate the certificate using helm, you can use the following snippet Example {{ - $ cn := printf \"%s.%s.svc\" ( include \"nginx-ingress.validatingWebhook.fullname\" . ) .Release.Namespace }} {{ - $ ca := genCA ( printf \"%s-ca\" ( include \"nginx-ingress.validatingWebhook.fullname\" . )) .Values.validatingWebhook.certificateValidity - }} {{ - $ cert := genSignedCert $ cn nil nil .Values.validatingWebhook.certificateValidity $ ca - }}","title":"Using helm"},{"location":"deploy/validating-webhook/#ingress-controller-flags","text":"To enable the feature in the ingress controller, you need to provide 3 flags to the command line. flag description example usage --validating-webhook The address to start an admission controller on :8080 --validating-webhook-certificate The certificate the webhook is using for its TLS handling /usr/local/certificates/validating-webhook.pem --validating-webhook-key The key the webhook is using for its TLS handling /usr/local/certificates/validating-webhook-key.pem","title":"Ingress controller flags"},{"location":"deploy/validating-webhook/#kube-api-server-flags","text":"Validating webhook feature requires specific setup on the kube API server side. 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For this reason, the ingress-nginx project is adopting it. Quick start for the KEP process \u00b6 Follow the process outlined in the KEP template Do I have to use the KEP process? \u00b6 No... but we hope that you will. Over time having a rich set of KEPs in one place will make it easier for people to track what is going on in the community and find a structured historic record. KEPs are only required when the changes are wide ranging and impact most of the project. Why would I want to use the KEP process? \u00b6 Our aim with KEPs is to clearly communicate new efforts to the Kubernetes contributor community. As such, we want to build a well curated set of clear proposals in a common format with useful metadata. Benefits to KEP users (in the limit): Exposure on a kubernetes blessed web site that is findable via web search engines. Cross indexing of KEPs so that users can find connections and the current status of any KEP. A clear process with approvers and reviewers for making decisions. This will lead to more structured decisions that stick as there is a discoverable record around the decisions. We are inspired by IETF RFCs, Python PEPs, and Rust RFCs.","title":"Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs)"},{"location":"enhancements/#kubernetes-enhancement-proposals-keps","text":"A Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) is a way to propose, communicate and coordinate on new efforts for the Kubernetes project. For this reason, the ingress-nginx project is adopting it.","title":"Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs)"},{"location":"enhancements/#quick-start-for-the-kep-process","text":"Follow the process outlined in the KEP template","title":"Quick start for the KEP process"},{"location":"enhancements/#do-i-have-to-use-the-kep-process","text":"No... but we hope that you will. Over time having a rich set of KEPs in one place will make it easier for people to track what is going on in the community and find a structured historic record. KEPs are only required when the changes are wide ranging and impact most of the project.","title":"Do I have to use the KEP process?"},{"location":"enhancements/#why-would-i-want-to-use-the-kep-process","text":"Our aim with KEPs is to clearly communicate new efforts to the Kubernetes contributor community. As such, we want to build a well curated set of clear proposals in a common format with useful metadata. Benefits to KEP users (in the limit): Exposure on a kubernetes blessed web site that is findable via web search engines. Cross indexing of KEPs so that users can find connections and the current status of any KEP. A clear process with approvers and reviewers for making decisions. This will lead to more structured decisions that stick as there is a discoverable record around the decisions. We are inspired by IETF RFCs, Python PEPs, and Rust RFCs.","title":"Why would I want to use the KEP process?"},{"location":"enhancements/20190724-only-dynamic-ssl/","text":"Remove static SSL configuration mode \u00b6 Table of Contents \u00b6 Summary Motivation Goals Non-Goals Proposal Implementation Details/Notes/Constraints Drawbacks Alternatives Summary \u00b6 Since release 0.19.0 is possible to configure SSL certificates without the need of NGINX reloads (thanks to lua) and after release 0.24.0 the default enabled mode is dynamic. Motivation \u00b6 The static configuration implies reloads, something that affects the majority of the users. Goals \u00b6 Deprecation of the flag --enable-dynamic-certificates . Cleanup of the codebase. Non-Goals \u00b6 Features related to certificate authentication are not changed in any way. Proposal \u00b6 Remove static SSL configuration Implementation Details/Notes/Constraints \u00b6 Deprecate the flag Move the directives ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key from each server block to the http section. These settings are required to avoid NGINX errors in the logs. 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Providers such as GCP, Amazon EC charges money for that. ingress-nginx when picking an endpoint to route request to does not consider whether the endpoint is in different zone or the same one. That means it's at least equally likely that it will pick an endpoint from another zone and proxy the request to it. In this situation response from the endpoint to ingress-nginx pod is considered as inter zone traffic and costs money. At the time of this writing GCP charges $0.01 per GB of inter zone egress traffic according to https://cloud.google.com/compute/network-pricing. According to https://datapath.io/resources/blog/what-are-aws-data-transfer-costs-and-how-to-minimize-them/ Amazon also charges the same amount of money sa GCP for cross zone, egress traffic. This can be a lot of money depending on once's traffic. By teaching ingress-nginx about zones we can eliminate or at least decrease this cost. Arguably inter-zone network latency should also be better than cross zone. Goals \u00b6 Given a regional cluster running ingress-nginx, ingress-nginx should do best effort to pick zone-local endpoint when proxying This should not impact canary feature ingress-nginx should be able to operate successfully if there's no zonal endpoints Non-Goals \u00b6 This feature inherently assumes that endpoints are distributed across zones in a way that they can handle all the traffic from ingress-nginx pod(s) in that zone This feature will be relying on https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/labels-annotations-taints/#failure-domainbetakubernetesiozone, it is not this KEP's goal to support other cases Proposal \u00b6 The idea here is to have controller part of ingress-nginx to (1) detect what zone its current pod is running in and (2) detect the zone for every endpoints it knows about. After that it will post that data as part of endpoints to Lua land. Then Lua balancer when picking an endpoint will try to pick zone-local endpoint first and if there is no zone-local endpoint then it will fallback to current behaviour. This feature at least in the beginning should be optional since it is going to make it harder to reason about the load balancing and not everyone might want that. How does controller know what zone it runs in? We can have the pod spec do pass node name using downward API as an environment variable. Then on start controller can get node details from the API based on node name. Once the node details is obtained we can extract the zone from failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone annotation. Then we can pass that value to Lua land through Nginx configuration when loading lua_ingress.lua module in init_by_lua phase. How do we extract zones for endpoints? We can have the controller watch create and update events on nodes in the entire cluster and based on that keep the map of nodes to zones in the memory. And when we generate endpoints list, we can access node name using .subsets.addresses [ i ]. nodeName and based on that fetch zone from the map in memory and store it as a field on the endpoint. This solution assumes failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone annotation does not change until the end of node's life. Otherwise we have to watch update events as well on the nodes and that'll add even more overhead. Alternatively, we can get the list of nodes only when there's no node in the memory for given node name. This is probably a better solution because then we would avoid watching for API changes on node resources. We can eagrly fetch all the nodes and build node name to zone mapping on start. And from thereon sync it during endpoints building in the main event loop iff there's no entry exist for the node of an endpoint. This means an extra API call in case cluster has expanded. How do we make sure we do our best to choose zone-local endpoint? This will be done on Lua side. For every backend we will initialize two balancer instances: (1) with all endpoints (2) with all endpoints corresponding to current zone for the backend. Then given the request once we choose what backend needs to serve the request, we will first try to use zonal balancer for that backend. If zonal balancer does not exist (i.e there's no zonal endpoint) then we will use general balancer. In case of zonal outages we assume that readiness probe will fail and controller will see no endpoints for the backend and therefore we will use general balancer. We can enable the feature using a configmap setting. Doing it this way makes it easier to rollback in case of a problem. 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