ingress-nginx, with Alejandro de Brito Fontes and Ricardo Katz

The most popular Ingress controller for Kubernetes is ingress-nginx, created in 2015 by Alejandro de Brito Fontes. Alejandro stepped down earlier this year, and the project is now maintained by a team including Ricardo Katz. Learn the history and what’s in the new 1.0 release from a pair of South American self-proclaimed sysadmins.

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Links from the interview

• ingress-nginx
• Early computing
  • IBM PC/XT
  • Windows 95 Pinball
  • Flight simulator easter egg in Excel 97
  • Slackware Bible
  • Foca Linux
• History of Ingress
  • Ingress announced in Kubernetes 1.1
  • CoreOS Fleet
  • Service loadbalancer
  • kube-haproxy-router
  • Kubernetes Ingress proposal issue
  • ingress-gce
• ingress-nginx:
  • Alejandro’s proposal for ingress-nginx
  • Original PR
  • Alejandro’s bare metal cluster - then and now
  • Ricardo’s early contributions
  • Note that NGINX Inc. have their own Ingress controller, for the open source or commercial versions of NGINX
    • Their comparison of the two versions
• Supporting open source:
  • Alejandro steps down as ingress-nginx maintainer
    • He actually tried earlier, but no-one else stepped up!
  • Core Infrastructure Initiative fund for supporting the Internet
  • xkcd on internet dependencies
  • Episode 116, with Alex Ellis
• The future:
  • ingress-nginx 1.0.0
  • NGINX Inc. commits more to open source
  • Gateway API
  • IngressClass and upgrades to the v1 Ingress API
  • ModSecurity and Curiefense
• Alejandro de Brito Fontes on Twitter
• Ricardo Katz on Twitter