Glossary term
What is Ingress? Meaning for developers
In System Design
Routes external HTTP traffic into a Kubernetes cluster. Example: shop.com/api → orders service.
Learn it properly · System DesignLesson 56: Kubernetes Core ConceptsRunning 300 containers across 40 machines by hand doesn't work. How Kubernetes turns “what I want” into “what's running”: the control plane and nodes, the reconciliation loop, pods, deployments, services and ingress, health probes, resources and autoscaling — and whether you need it at all.In Docker & Kubernetes
An object holding HTTP and HTTPS routing rules from outside the cluster to Services, which needs an Ingress controller to act.
Learn it properly · Docker & KubernetesLesson 5: Services, Ingress and Networking in KubernetesHow pods find each other, ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer, DNS names, Ingress, and what a service mesh is for.