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This guide walks you through securing the Longhorn UI in a Kubernetes environment by configuring basic authentication and enabling HTTPS via Ingress and cert‑manager, including prerequisite setup, secret creation, Helm upgrades, and verification steps to ensure production‑grade protection.
This guide details how to expose the nginx‑ingress metrics port, configure static and ServiceMonitor‑based scraping in Prometheus Operator, create necessary secrets, and integrate the metrics into Grafana dashboards, providing a complete Kubernetes‑native solution for monitoring ingress traffic.
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This article explains how Kubernetes manages inbound traffic using Ingress and the newer Gateway API, compares their features and limitations, provides YAML examples for Ingress, GatewayClass, Gateway, and Route resources, and discusses the future direction of traffic management in cloud‑native environments.
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This article explains how to use Cloudflare's open‑source Pingora Rust framework to implement a Kubernetes ingress gateway, covering objectives, architecture, code examples for an ingress watcher and router control, deployment steps, and custom configuration integration.
This guide explains how to implement a blue‑green deployment on Kubernetes with host‑ and path‑based routing, covering prerequisites, namespace creation, deployment manifests, service and ingress configuration, traffic switching, updates, verification, and rollback procedures.
This article explains the end‑to‑end path that an external HTTP or HTTPS request follows—from the client through DNS resolution, load balancer, ingress controller, service routing, and finally to the target container inside a Kubernetes pod—while also covering optional variations and the underlying network components.
This article reviews Kubernetes traffic management, contrasting north‑south and east‑west flows, explains the limitations of Ingress, introduces the newly GA Gateway API, and demonstrates how its role‑based resources and richer expressiveness can become the future standard for cloud‑native networking.
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.
This article explains how an Ingress Controller automatically translates Ingress resources into routing rules, updates service routing tables, configures load balancers, and sets up SSL/TLS by providing clear examples and YAML manifests for Kubernetes environments.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Kubernetes core components, such as Master and Worker nodes, and explains the purpose and usage of various plugins—including network, volume, ingress, DNS, dashboard, heapster, kubelet, and container runtime—along with practical command‑line examples for each.
This article explains the concept of load balancing, describes how Kubernetes Ingress controllers implement it, and provides step‑by‑step YAML examples for deploying Nginx Ingress, configuring basic routing, sticky sessions, custom load‑balancing algorithms, and external traffic policies to achieve flexible traffic distribution in a cloud‑native environment.
This guide walks through installing Jenkins on a Kubernetes cluster using manual YAML manifests, configuring persistent storage, service accounts, ingress, and then demonstrates both static and dynamic Jenkins agents, including pipeline setup, plugin installation, and CI/CD workflow execution.
A playful narrative follows Phippy and her niece Zee as they explore a Kubernetes‑themed zoo, turning whimsical animal scenes into clear explanations of Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, DaemonSets, Ingress, CronJobs and CustomResourceDefinitions for cloud‑native practitioners.
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