I understand how kubernetes ingresses work. I understand kubernetes services are used to expose one’s deployed service(s). What I don’t understand is how to get traffic into my cluster with a DigitalOcean managed Kubernetes.
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
This comment has been deleted
No you do not need to create one first. The managed kubernetes logic will do that for you. Once it is created, you can check the LB’s IP that it was assigned(via kubectl or the DO cloud panel) and setup your domain to resolve to that LB IP.
Let me know if you have any additional questions.
Regards,
John Kwiatkoski Senior Developer Support Engineer
Hi there!
Most commonly, people use services of type ‘LoadBalancer’ to get traffic into the clusters:
Once a load balancer service is created our cloud controller manager that runs on your master will notice the new service is of type ‘LoadBalancer’ and provision a DO load balancer to be pointed at your DOKS nodes at the NodePort specified or generated by the service. Now any traffic that hits your LB’s IP will be routed as follows(with a few exceptions):
User Request -> DO LB -> kubernetes node -> service -> pod
That LB will have an external-facing IP where you can point all you traffic that belongs to that service. Users often create their ingress controller service as the loadbalancer type and then use ingress rules to have the ingress controller distribute traffic. This prevents users from needing a individual LB for each service.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress-controllers/
Regards,
John Kwiatkoski Senior Developer Support Engineer
Become a contributor for community
Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.
DigitalOcean Documentation
Full documentation for every DigitalOcean product.
Resources for startups and SMBs
The Wave has everything you need to know about building a business, from raising funding to marketing your product.
The developer cloud
Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.
Get started for free
Sign up and get $200 in credit for your first 60 days with DigitalOcean.*
*This promotional offer applies to new accounts only.