Using Ingress As A Load Balancer (Minikube)

In this tutorial, we will talk about how to use Ingress on an already deployed app. For those who are wondering about what Ingress is, it is a load balancer. Now, folks who don’t know what load balancer is. As the name suggests, it balances the traffic, i.e dividing the traffic between the multiple pods running on nodes.

Note: Before you move forward, you need to know the basics of Kubernetes and the basic commands.

I will be jumping straight to Ingress since the deployment I will be using is covered here, please give this blog a read before proceeding here so that you understand all the things that I will be skipping in this tutorial.

I will be using a sample react app as an example, information on it can be found here.

We will first create a pod YAML file that uses the application.

pod.yaml

We also have to make a corresponding deployment file for the same.

deployment.yaml