Using NGINX Plus as an Ingress Controller for Load Balancing Applications on Kubernetes

Speaker: Michael Pleshakov Platform Integration Engineer, NGINX, Inc.

Kubernetes lets you easily deploy and manage containerized application across a cluster of machines. Load balancing is a critical part of any resilient high-performance web application. Using NGINX Plus as an Ingress controller allows you to leverage the power of NGINX for load balancing applications on Kubernetes. This September NGINX, Inc are releasing version 1.0 of the Ingress controller solution, making it fully supported and production-ready.

In this talk we’ll show how to use NGINX Plus as an Ingress controller:

- Deploy NGINX Plus with the Ingress controller solution.
- Configure load balancing for a web application using an Ingress resource.
- Support advanced load balancing requirements, such as Authentication or Session Persistence, using Annotations.
- Fine-tune NGINX Plus configuration using a ConfigMap resource.
- Extend the Ingress controller to support any special requirements.
- Collect metrics and logs from NGINX Plus.

We’ll conclude the talk showing an alternative method of deploying NGINX Plus on Kubernetes without using Ingress.

[johnmalouf]

Is there an annotations reference somewhere that details annotation options?