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Following up on the ‘Rails from “zero” to kubernetes’ series, we’ll see today how to expose your service to the internet, since I think we all agree that mapping directly the port of your rails app to the internet is not a really wise choice.
Kubernetes has a “simple but works” solution called ingress, ingress is an HTTP proxy, it will work as a reverse proxy for HTTP and HTTPS for any service that exposes one one port.
In the previous post, we created our first kubernetes pod, but one important part is missing, it is not possible to access that application, we’ll solve this with a service now….
There are a lot of server monitoring services around, but sometimes you need to keep the things simple, for a number of reasons, for example: your infrastructure is too simple to pay for a more complicated service You just need a “ping” to know when your http server is responding you already have an “elastic…