Installing and Using Nginx Ingress Controller in Kubernetes Environments
This guide explains what the Nginx Ingress Controller is, how to install it on Kubernetes using Helm, and provides example configurations for deploying it in production (EKS) and development (Docker Desktop) environments to route traffic to backend services.
The Nginx Ingress Controller is an open‑source solution that provides a load‑balancing and proxy server based on Kubernetes Ingress features, offering automatic route‑table updates, SSL termination, HTTP routing, SSL offloading, CORS support, and more.
To install the Nginx Ingress Controller in a Kubernetes cluster, you can use the Helm package manager and run the following command:
helm install stable/nginx-ingress
Example usage across multiple environments: In a production environment such as Amazon EKS, you first deploy the cluster, install the Nginx Ingress Controller, and then add routing rules.
In a development environment you can deploy the controller on Docker Desktop and similarly add routing rules.
For production, you define a set of routing rules that forward all traffic to frontend‑service:80 and forward requests matching /v2/api to api‑service:8080 . More details can be found in the official documentation at https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/.
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