Deploying the Ingress Controller

To deploy an Ingress Controller, it can be as simple as creating it with kubectl. The source for a sample controller deployment is available on GitHub.

$ kubectl create -f backend.yaml

The result will be a set of pods managed by a replication controller and some internal services. You will notice a default HTTP backend which serves 404 pages.

$ kubectl get pods,rc,svc

NAME                               READY  STATUS   RESTARTS  AGE
po/default-http-backend-xvep8      1/1    Running  0         4m
po/nginx-ingress-controller-fkshm  1/1    Running  0         4m

NAME                     DESIRED  CURRENT  READY  AGE
rc/default-http-backend  1        1        0      4m

NAME                      CLUSTER-IP  EXTERNAL-IP  PORT(S)  AGE
svc/default-http-backend  10.0.0.212  <none>       80/TCP   4m
svc/kubernetes            10.0.0.1    <none>       443/TCP  77d