Ingress on the Rails - Use Community Tools to Automate Ingress Provisioning

Discover how to streamline Ingress provisioning in Kubernetes using community tools in this 28-minute conference talk. Learn to automate the setup of DNS, TLS certificates, and monitoring for secure HTTPS and HTTP/2 traffic across multiple clusters. Explore a cloud-provider agnostic approach using ExternalDNS, cert-manager, Prometheus, Grafana, and Helm with the kubernetes/ingress-nginx controller. Gain insights into deployment strategies, secrets management, pipeline integration, and solutions to common pain points. Dive into the anatomy of an Ingress, understand CRDs in cert-manager, and see practical examples of OAuth2 proxy configuration. Examine monitoring setups with custom dashboards and discover how to fine-tune NGINX Ingress controller settings for optimal performance.