Not to sound like a n00b but its not clear how to modify the nginx ingress controller for normal operation. I have devs wanting to deploy their apps and set their internal hostnames. Is it basically just modifying the manifest like a normal deployment?

thanks i saw that. Im not sure what parts need to change. I will have to research.

you can change as many or as few values as your need to customize the component

right im just not sure how much will work in a self-hosted environment. e.g. no load balancer service.

at that point it is just a vanilla k8s ingress controller, but you can still point things like a wildcard DNS record and configure your individual ingresses for things like TLS offload

ive heard i need metallb to get the load balancer service but im trying to keep it least complicated 🙂

for the most part, yeah

ok cool - really appreciate it. its been a few years since i worked with k8s and am only now working my way thru the cka cert lol

the difference between this approach and an external LB is we still need things like DNS records to get the traffic to the ingress (which includes addresses for all nodes running ingress), and don’t support things like stateful client connections that can survive ECMP rehash

gotcha