What is an Ingress Controller good for in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

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Answer

An ingress controller is a piece of software that provides

  • reverse proxy,
  • configurable traffic routing,
  • and TLS termination

for Kubernetes services.

Kubernetes ingress resources are used to configure the ingress rules and routes for individual Kubernetes services. Using an ingress controller and ingress rules, a single IP address can be used to route traffic to multiple services in a Kubernetes cluster.

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