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Introduction

Introduction to Ingress

In a Kubernetes cluster, an Ingress functions as an access point that exposes Services in the cluster. It distributes most of the network traffic that is destined for the Services in the cluster. An Ingress is a Kubernetes resource. It manages external access to the Services in a Kubernetes cluster. You can configure forwarding rules for an Ingress to route network traffic to backend pods of different Services.

How an Ingress controller works

To ensure that the Ingress resource in a cluster works as expected, you must deploy an Ingress controller in the cluster to parse the Ingress rules. After an Ingress controller receives a request that matches an Ingress rule, the request is routed to the corresponding Service. Then, the Service forwards the request to pods and the pods process the request. In a Kubernetes cluster, Services, Ingresses, and Ingress controllers work in the following process:

A Service is an abstraction of an application that is deployed on a set of replicated pods.
An Ingress contains reverse proxy rules. It controls to which Services HTTP or HTTPS requests are routed. For example, an Ingress routes requests to different Services based on the hosts and URLs in the requests.
An Ingress controller is a reverse proxy program that parses Ingress rules. If changes are made to the Ingress rules, the Ingress controller updates the Ingress rules accordingly. After an Ingress controller receives a request, it redirects the request to a Service based on the Ingress rules.

Usage notes

For more information about the NGINX Ingress controller, see Use Ingresses to implement canary releases and Use an Ingress controller to mirror network traffic.

Release notes

June 2021


Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v0.44.0.3-8e83e7dc6-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-ingress-controller:v0.44.0.3-8e83e7dc6-aliyun	2021-06-01	Vulnerability CVE-2021-23017 is fixed. For more information, see Updating NGINX for a DNS Resolver Vulnerability (CVE-2021-23017).	The upgrade may temporarily interrupt your service. We recommend that you upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller during off-peak hours.

April 2021


Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v0.44.0.2-abf1c6fe4-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-ingress-controller:v0.44.0.2-abf1c6fe4-aliyun	2021-04-01	Compatibility with the `the_real_ip` field in the log_format parameter of NGINX Ingress controller V0.30 or earlier is added.	The upgrade may temporarily interrupt your service. We recommend that you upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller during off-peak hours.

March 2021


Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v0.44.0.1-5e842447b-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-ingress-controller:v0.44.0.1-5e842447b-aliyun	2021-03-08	By default, validating admission webhooks are enabled. For more information, see How the NGINX Ingress controller works. Validity check is performed on the value of the `service-weight` annotation. The performance of persistent connections and short-lived connections is increased by 20% to 50%. Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) stapling is supported. LuaJIT is upgraded to V2.1.0. NGINX is upgraded to V1.19.6. Alpine Linux is upgraded to V3.13 for base images. CVE vulnerabilities related to OpenSSL are fixed. By default, Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 is enabled. Note By default, only TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 are supported by HTTPS. For more information about how to enable support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1, see Which Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol versions are supported by Ingresses?. The Kubernetes version must be V1.16 or later. The NGINX Ingress controller is upgraded based on open source Ingress-NGINX 0.44.0. For more information, see Ingress-NGINX changelog.	The upgrade may temporarily interrupt your service. We recommend that you upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller during off-peak hours.

April 2020


Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v0.30.0.1-5f89cb606-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-ingress-controller:v0.30.0.1-5f89cb606-aliyun	2020-04-02	FastCGI Backend is supported. By default, the Dynamic SSL Cert Update mode is enabled. Traffic mirroring is supported. NGINX is upgraded to V1.17.8 and OpenResty is upgraded to V1.15.8. The operating system of base images is updated to Alpine Linux. Ingress validating admission webhooks are supported. The following vulnerabilities are fixed: CVE-2018-16843, CVE-2018-16844, CVE-2019-9511, CVE-2019-9513, and CVE-2019-9516. Major updates: The lua-resty-waf, session-cookie-hash, and force-namespace-isolation configurations are deprecated. The data type of x-forwarded-prefix is changed from BOOLEAN to STRING. The the_real_ip field in the log-format parameter will be deprecated in the next version and replaced with the remote_addr field. The NGINX Ingress controller is upgraded based on Ingress-NGINX 0.30.0. For more information about the updates, see Ingress-NGINX changelog.	The upgrade may temporarily interrupt your service. We recommend that you upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller during off-peak hours.

October 2019


Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v0.22.0.5-552e0db-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-ingress-controller:v0.22.0.5-552e0db-aliyun	2019-10-24	Wildcard domain names, whitelists, and rewrite rules are supported if you enable dynamic update for NGINX upstream servers.	The upgrade may temporarily interrupt your service. We recommend that you upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller during off-peak hours.

July 2019


Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v0.22.0.4-5a14d4b-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-ingress-controller:v0.22.0.4-5a14d4b-aliyun	2019-07-18	Canary release rules are optimized and the Perl regular expressions are supported.	The upgrade may temporarily interrupt your service. We recommend that you upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller during off-peak hours.

April 2019


Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v0.22.0.3-da10b7f-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-ingress-controller:v0.22.0.3-da10b7f-aliyun	2019-04-25	The NGINX Ingress controller is upgraded based on Ingress-NGINX 0.22.0. For more information about the updates, see Ingress-NGINX. Blue-green releases and canary releases are supported if you enable dynamic update for NGINX upstream servers. By default, dynamic update is enabled for NGINX upstream servers. Major updates: Capture groups are used for rewrite-target annotations. For more information, see rewrite-target. For more information about how to smoothly upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller, visit GitHub.	The upgrade may temporarily interrupt your service. We recommend that you upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller during off-peak hours.

January 2019


Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v0.20.0.2-cc39f1b-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-ingress-controller:v0.20.0.2-cc39f1b-aliyun	2019-01-17	The default number of NGINX worker processes is limited. This avoids the issue that excess NGINX processes occupy host resources. The port numbers of Services that route traffic to the old application version and the new application version can be different during blue-green releases and canary releases. The NGINX configuration verification failure is fixed when no pod is active on the backend servers of the new application version during canary releases. The issue that Ingress address endpoints are not updated due to failed connections to the Kubernetes API server is fixed.	The upgrade may temporarily interrupt your service. We recommend that you upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller during off-peak hours.

November 2018


Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v0.20.0.1-4597ce2-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-ingress-controller:v0.20.0.1-4597ce2-aliyun	2018-11-29	The NGINX Ingress controller is upgraded based on Ingress-NGINX 0.20.0. For more information about the updates, see Ingress-NGINX. NGINX is upgraded to V1.15.6 and HTTP/2-related vulnerabilities are fixed. Regular expressions are supported by the path parameter. The default-http-backend Service is removed and custom default backend Services are supported. Blacklists based on IP addresses, user agents, and referer headers are supported. The default permissions are optimized and the privileged permissions are removed. Apache JServ Protocol (AJP) is supported.	The upgrade may temporarily interrupt your service. We recommend that you upgrade the NGINX Ingress controller during off-peak hours.