Editing NGINX-ingress (section)

== NGINX 'Official' Ingress Controller ==
When researching the methods to install the NGINX Ingress Controller, I found many varied and somewhat conflicting methods and manifests.  Eventually, I found the [https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress 'official' github repo from the NGINX team].

I used the manifests and instructions from this repo mostly intact.  [https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/blob/master/docs/installation.md Full installation instructions] are located online.

# '''ns-and-sa.yaml''' -- creates the namespace and serviceaccount
# I manually created the SSL certificate secret (after creating a self-signed certificate) instead of using their manifest
#:<pre>kubectl create secret tls default-server-secret --cert=ingress.crt --key=ingress.key -n nginx-ingress</pre>
# '''nginx-config.yaml''' - creates the configmap for providing configuration options (not used ... yet )
# '''rbac.yaml''' - creates the appropriate roles and rolebindings
# '''nginx-ingress.yaml''' -- I used the deployment version ... don't think there will be a need for using a daemonset
# '''loadbalancer.yaml''' - creates the loadbalancer service that gives an external IP address for the controller.
#* NOTE: I had to comment out the 'externalTrafficPolicy' parameter for the service, as it caused erratic behavior when accessing the controller

At this point, you have a fully functional ingress controller that responds on both http and https ports ... and provides its own default page for 'resources not found'

The manifests and files are checked into the [https://gitlab.williams-net.org/k8s/k8s-admin GitLab k8s-admin repository] in the directory 'nginx-ingress-controller'

The repo for this controller is cloned into:
 /workspace/outside-repos/kubernetes-ingress