Hello folks, I'm confused with the default installation of nginx ingress withe RKE2. I would have thought it should be running as a DaemonSet and exposed as a Service of type NodePort on the port 80. It is effectively running as a DaemonSet but it's only a Service of type ClusterIP. And still I'm able to join my ingress and other services configured as type Ingress on port 80 & 443 on all nodes of my cluster. I think I'm missing something basic here 😞 Does what I'm saying makes sense or not at all?

it’s a daemonset with hostport 80 and 443, so you can reach the ingress on any of your nodes at 80/443. You can also reach it via the service within the cluster, if you want.

Aaaah thanks 🙂

they’re just pods, you can do anything you can do with a normal pod

Didn't know this exist with pod as well to be honest 😅

How would someone recommend routing data to these services then? You obviously don’t want to just point an A Record to a single specific host in case that host goes down for any reason.

cnames are an option… or external load-balancers…

gotcha, I think I’d prefer to do LB on the cluster - so would I just remove the current install of NGINX and reinstall with it as a LB?

no. ingress-nginx is an ingress controller, not a load-balancer controller

We do external load balancer indeed

load-balancer controllers would be things like kube-vip, metallb, or servicelb

Understood.