Hi, I’d like to configure my forwarding rules for a Load Balancer I have set up through the Ingress Controller in my Kubernetes Cluster.
As I understand it, editing this manually is a bad idea since these objects may be recreated for whatever reason.
What is the recommended way to edit a forwarding rule given this scenario?
Specifically, I’d like to specify the certificate to use for my HTTPS and point it to the HTTP node port
Thanks
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Heya, @gcpfranticfanficgmailcom
The normal way to do what you want is: keep the Service that fronts the controller as a LoadBalancer on port 80/443, then control HTTPS + cert + backend mapping via the Ingress resource.
For the certificate, reference a Kubernetes TLS secret in your Ingress (spec.tls), or if you’re using cert-manager, let it create/manage that secret and just reference it. For “HTTPS -> HTTP node port”, that’s effectively “terminate TLS at the ingress controller, then proxy to HTTP upstreams”, which is the standard behaviour: your Ingress listens on 443, terminates TLS, and forwards to the Service/port you define (usually port 80 in-cluster), not to a nodePort directly.
If you share which ingress controller you installed (DO’s NGINX Ingress, ingress-nginx, Traefik, etc.), I can paste a minimal Ingress YAML that sets the TLS secret and routes 443 to your HTTP service cleanly.
Hope that this helps!
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