I'm running k3s locally and i need to have ingress from which the traffic should divert to "gateway" service this is my very simple ingress file. I'm unable to access it even with my local machine ip. is there something wrong with the file?

apiVersion: <http://networking.k8s.io/v1|networking.k8s.io/v1>
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ingress
  namespace: xplore
  annotations:
    <http://kubernetes.io/ingress.class|kubernetes.io/ingress.class>: traefik
spec:
  rules:
    - http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: gateway
                port:
                  number: 80

A small example of my Ingress configuration. It does use Let's Encrypt to create the HTTPS endpoints, so you might have to either adapt the configuration or implement it the same way:

---
apiVersion: <http://networking.k8s.io/v1|networking.k8s.io/v1>
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: cloudflare-webapp
  annotations:
    <http://kubernetes.io/ingress.class|kubernetes.io/ingress.class>: "traefik"
    <http://cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer|cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer>: letsencrypt-prod
spec:
  rules:
  - host: <http://cloudflare.krakensoftware.eu|cloudflare.krakensoftware.eu>
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: cloudflare-webapp-np
            port:
              number: 80
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - <http://cloudflare.krakensoftware.eu|cloudflare.krakensoftware.eu>
    secretName: cloudflare-krakensoftware-eu-tls

is providing a host necessary? I'm running it on local machine so can't have host name it's only localhost

Just to doublecheck, you have verified all kube-system pods are running and in the correct state?

not only they are running in the correct state, I can call the rest api of these pods from each other, I entered one pod used wget to issue commands to the other pods. all fine,

I figured it out, it was not ingress it was the gateway krakend that was causing the issues. ingress was working correctly the gateway had a particular issue that caused it to discard all the requests silently. The article you shared is really very helpful. thank you for all the guidance.

Np 😄 Glad you figured it out