The most popular Ingress controller for Kubernetes is ingress-nginx, created in 2015 by Alejandro de Brito Fontes. Alejandro stepped down earlier this year, and the project is now maintained by a team including Ricardo Katz. Learn the history and what’s in the new 1.0 release from a pair of South American self-proclaimed sysadmins.
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ingress-nginx
Early computing

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History of Ingress

Ingress announced in Kubernetes 1.1
CoreOS Fleet
Service loadbalancer
kube-haproxy-router
Kubernetes Ingress proposal issue
ingress-gce


ingress-nginx:

Alejandro’s proposal for ingress-nginx
Original PR
Alejandro’s bare metal cluster - then and now
Ricardo’s early contributions
Note that NGINX Inc. have their own Ingress controller, for the open source or commercial versions of NGINX

Their comparison of the two versions




Supporting open source:

Alejandro steps down as ingress-nginx maintainer

He actually tried earlier, but no-one else stepped up!


Core Infrastructure Initiative fund for supporting the Internet
xkcd on internet dependencies
Episode 116, with Alex Ellis


The future:

ingress-nginx 1.0.0
NGINX Inc. commits more to open source
Gateway API
IngressClass and upgrades to the v1 Ingress API
ModSecurity and Curiefense


Alejandro de Brito Fontes on Twitter
Ricardo Katz on Twitter