I am having hard time in understanding the role of a Load Balancer when used with Ingress Nginx.
I know a Load balancer distributes request over multiple nodes.
ig, let's say I have two nodes A and B, and they are responisble for processing requests at example.com
.
So a load balancer will take request for example.com
and distribute among them with help of defined algorithm.
I also understand what an API Gateway is,
ig, let's say I have one order
service and another payment
service so an API gateway will get the request for example.com
and it will hand over the request for /orders
to order
service and /payments
to payment
service.
The Confusion:
Load Balancer(NLB) -> API Gateway -> Services -> order deployment -> which is running two replicas
/orders
NLB -> [ k8s cluster ]
, how does it know how to distribute requests?These collectely could one question, I don't know.
Any kind of explanation would appreciated.
I have gone through many articles and blogs but none talks about complete picture.
Update
Many of my doubts are cleared through this article
Within the cluster a service does load balancing among the replicas. Source
I still have some questions,
Do I only need a load balacner to expose the ingress controller service?
What if there is some problem with the ingress controller and it restarts.
What will happen will it get a new IP and load balancer will poin to new one or the ip will remain the same?
This article may help: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/network-load-balancer-nginx-ingress-controller-eks/
Q: Do I only need a load balacner to expose the ingress controller service? A: Expose K8s services mainly
Q: What if there is some problem with the ingress controller and it restarts. A: Problem can appear if new broken changes will be applied, and in this case old controller will still work, but new one will fail to start, therefore you will have to do kubectl describe etc, to understand what is wrong.
Q: What will happen will it get a new IP and load balancer will poin to new one or the ip will remain the same? A: Why you need LB ip's? Use LoadBalancer DNS.
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