Kubernetes Ingress Controller Deep Dive: HTTP/S Traffic Management Made Easy

An Ingress Controller in Kubernetes is the component responsible for fulfilling Ingress resources—custom Kubernetes objects that define rules for routing external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to Services within your cluster. By acting as the entry point for application traffic, the Ingress Controller enables host‑ and path‑based routing, TLS termination, and various traffic‑management features such as rewriting, rate limiting, and authentication.