Class 31: Mastering Ingress in Kubernetes with Helm on Azure AKS – Step-by-Step Routing in Action

Setting Up NGINX Ingress with AKS (Cloud DevOps Bootcamp)

🚀 Introduction

In Kubernetes, Ingress offers a powerful way to expose HTTP and HTTPS services running inside the cluster to the outside world. Rather than exposing each service with a separate LoadBalancer or NodePort, you can use a single Ingress Controller to route traffic to multiple services based on hostname or path rules.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Deploy two versions of a Hello World app.

• Install the NGINX Ingress Controller using Helm.

• Create an Ingress Resource to route traffic based on hostnames.

• Access the apps via a custom domain simulation (via /etc/hosts).

• Understand DNS configuration options.

We are using an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster with two worker nodes, and kubectl is configured to connect to the cluster.