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Installing ecosystem ingress controllers

Installing ecosystem ingress controllers - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Installing ecosystem ingress controllers

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- In this video, we'll explore ecosystem ingress controllers. So from the Kubernetes ecosystem, different ingress controllers are provided. Because the CNCF doesn't want to favor specific ecosystem projects, vanilla Kubernetes does not come with an ingress controller. As a result, you can very well build your ingress API resources. They won't work without the controller. Fortunately, Kubernetes distributors normally provide one or more supported ingress controllers. As an alternative, you may install ingress controllers manually. So I repeat, in vanilla Kubernetes, you have to install an ingress controller or else you can't use it. How do you do that? Well, if you are on vanilla Kubernetes, this is what you are going to do. You use Helm to install your ingress controller, and then you'll be able to use it. So helm upgrade --install ingress-nginx will do that for you. You know what? Let me demonstrate that. For your information, this demo is on a different machine because I want to…

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