The most popular Ingress controller for Kubernetes is ingress-nginx, created in 2015 by Alejandro de Brito Fontes. Alejandro stepped down earlier this year, and the project is now maintained by a team including Ricardo Katz. Learn the history and what’s in the new 1.0 release from a pair of South American self-proclaimed sysadmins.
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Links from the interview * ingress-nginx * Early computing + IBM PC/XT + Windows 95 Pinball + Flight simulator easter egg in Excel 97 + Slackware Bible + Foca Linux * History of Ingress + Ingress announced in Kubernetes 1.1 + CoreOS Fleet + Service loadbalancer + kube-haproxy-router + Kubernetes Ingress proposal issue + ingress-gce * ingress-nginx: + Alejandro’s proposal for ingress-nginx + Original PR + Alejandro’s bare metal cluster - then and now + Ricardo’s early contributions + Note that NGINX Inc. have their own Ingress controller, for the open source or commercial versions of NGINX - Their comparison of the two versions * Supporting open source: + Alejandro steps down as ingress-nginx maintainer - He actually tried earlier, but no-one else stepped up! + Core Infrastructure Initiative fund for supporting the Internet + xkcd on internet dependencies + Episode 116, with Alex Ellis * The future: + ingress-nginx 1.0.0 + NGINX Inc. commits more to open source + Gateway API + IngressClass and upgrades to the v1 Ingress API + ModSecurity and Curiefense * Alejandro de Brito Fontes on Twitter * Ricardo Katz on Twitter