ingress-nginx, with Alejandro de Brito Fontes and Ricardo Katz - a podcast by Adam Glick and Craig Box

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

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