By samrocksc
It’s not very intuitive in your “How to add a load balancer to a kubernetes cluster” on how to actually configure it after the fact. How do i configure the domain? Should I point the TXT record at the load balancer? How do I add more sub domains? I just don’t get it.
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Hi, this was the tutorial I followed to set this up: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-nginx-ingress-with-cert-manager-on-digitalocean-kubernetes
If you don’t have experience in all this, be prepared for a bit of learning and experimentation. But it’s totally worth it when you understand how all the pieces come together!
A basic outline of what you’ll need:
- Some HTTP service running in your cluster
- nginx ingress controller to receive external traffic and route it to your service
- cert manager to create https certificates
- Digital Ocean load balancer to give you a permanent public IP and route requests to your nginx (you need this because technically your K8s machines don’t have a permanent IP addresses)
- Configure your domains/subdomains to point to the load balancer via DNS A record.
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