Tag: ingress
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External Authentication Policy in NGINX Ingress Controller: Patterns for VirtualServer and Ingress
NGINX Ingress Controller 5.5.0 introduced ExternalAuth, a new Policy type that lets you define external authentication once in a Policy resource and apply it consistently across both VirtualServer and Ingress traffic paths. This is the first blog in a two part series that covers the ExternalAuth Policy, and is focused on: Why Use a Policy…
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mTLS Policies in NGINX Ingress Controller
NGINX Ingress Controller 5.5 brings full support for mTLS in Ingress objects! This blog post gives a more in-depth overview of our GitHub deployment examples and shows how to configure both our new ingress and egress mTLS Policy CRDs in NGINX Ingress Controller using annotations. Ingress mTLS Ingress mTLS configures how NGINX verifies client certificates…
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Optimising NGINX Ingress Controller Startup Performance
NGINX Ingress Controller 5.5 introduces some significant performance improvements in startup times! A few months ago, a community member noticed that NGINX Ingress Controller deployments with a large number of Ingress resources were experiencing longer-than-expected startup times. In clusters with hundreds or thousands of resources spread across many namespaces, the controller could take several minutes…
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NGINX Ingress Controller 5.5: Security, Performance, and Easier Migration
NGINX Ingress Controller 5.5 is a focused, community-driven release. It brings new capabilities, expanded Kubernetes Ingress support, a significant startup performance improvement at scale, and more annotations to ease migrations from ingress-nginx. Here’s what’s new. External Authentication for Ingress and VirtualServer What’s new?: External Authentication is now supported for both Ingress and VirtualServer resources. Based…