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| -# Load balancing with Ingress |
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| -Ingresses are one approach provided by Kubernetes to configure load balancers. |
| 1 | +# Load balancing with an Ingress |
| 2 | +Ingresses are one approach provided by Kubernetes to configure load balancers. |
3 | 3 | Depending on the version of Kubernetes you are using, and your cloud provider, you may need to use Ingresses.
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| -Please refer to [the Ingress documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/) |
| 4 | +Please refer to [the Ingress documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/) |
5 | 5 | for more information about Ingresses.
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| -## WebLogic clusters as backends of Ingress |
| 7 | +## WebLogic clusters as backends of an Ingress |
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| -In an Ingress object, a list of backends are provided for each target that will be load balanced. Each backend is typically |
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| -[a Kubernetes service](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/), more specifically, a combination of a `serviceName` and a `servicePort`. |
| 9 | +In an Ingress object, a list of backends are provided for each target that will be load balanced. Each backend is typically |
| 10 | +[a Kubernetes service](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/), more specifically, a combination of a `serviceName` and a `servicePort`. |
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| -When the WebLogic operator creates a WebLogic domain, it also creates a service for each WebLogic cluster in the domain. |
| 12 | +When the WebLogic operator creates a WebLogic domain, it also creates a service for each WebLogic cluster in the domain. |
13 | 13 | The operator defines the service such that its selector will match all WebLogic server pods within the WebLogic cluster
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14 | 14 | which are in the "ready" state.
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| -The name of the service created for a WebLogic cluster follows the pattern `<domainUID>-cluster-<clusterName>`. |
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| -For example, if the `domainUID` is `domain1` and the cluster name is `cluster-1`, the corresponding service |
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| -will be named `domain1-cluster-cluster-1`. |
| 16 | +The name of the service created for a WebLogic cluster follows the pattern `<domainUID>-cluster-<clusterName>`. |
| 17 | +For example, if the `domainUID` is `domain1` and the cluster name is `cluster-1`, the corresponding service |
| 18 | +will be named `domain1-cluster-cluster-1`. |
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| -The service name must comply with standard Kubernetes rules for naming of object and in particular with DNS-1035: |
| 20 | +The service name must comply with standard Kubernetes rules for naming of objects and in particular with DNS-1035: |
21 | 21 | > A DNS-1035 label must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-', start with an alphabetic character, and end with an alphanumeric character (e.g. 'my-name', or 'abc-123', regex used for validation is '[a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])?').
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| -To comply with these requirements, if the `domainUID` or the cluster name contains some upper-case characters or underscores, then |
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| -in the service name the upper-case characters will be converted to lower-case and underscores will be converted to hyphens. |
| 23 | +To comply with these requirements, if the `domainUID` or the cluster name contains some upper-case characters or underscores, then |
| 24 | +in the service name the upper-case characters will be converted to lower-case and underscores will be converted to hyphens. |
25 | 25 | For example, if the `domainUID` is `myDomain_1` and the cluster name is `myCluster_1`, the corresponding service will be named
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| -`mydomain-1-cluster-mycluster-1`. |
| 26 | +`mydomain-1-cluster-mycluster-1`. |
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| -The service, `serviceName` and `servicePort`, of a WebLogic cluster will be used in the routing rules defined in the Ingress |
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| -object and the load balancer will route traffic to the WebLogic servers within the cluster based on the rules. |
| 28 | +The service, `serviceName` and `servicePort`, of a WebLogic cluster will be used in the routing rules defined in the Ingress |
| 29 | +object and the load balancer will route traffic to the WebLogic servers within the cluster based on the rules. |
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| -**Note** Most common ingress controllers, for example Traefik, Voyager and nginx, |
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| -understand that there are zero or more actual pods behind the service, and they actually |
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| -build their backend list and route requests to those backends directly, not through the service. This means that |
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| -requests are properly balanced across the pods, according to the load balancing algorithm |
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| -in use. Most ingress controllers also |
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| -subscribe to updates on the service and adjust their internal backend sets when |
| 31 | +**Note**: Most common Ingress controllers, for example Traefik, Voyager, and nginx, |
| 32 | +understand that there are zero or more actual pods behind the service, and they actually |
| 33 | +build their backend list and route requests to those backends directly, not through the service. This means that |
| 34 | +requests are properly balanced across the pods, according to the load balancing algorithm |
| 35 | +in use. Most Ingress controllers also |
| 36 | +subscribe to updates on the service and adjust their internal backend sets when |
37 | 37 | additional pods become ready, or pods enter a non-ready state.
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| -## Steps to setup an Ingress load balancer |
| 39 | +## Steps to set up an Ingress load balancer |
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| -1. Install the Ingress controller. |
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| -After the Ingress controller is running, it monitors Ingress resources in given namespace(s) and acts accordingly. |
| 41 | +1. Install the Ingress controller. |
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| -1. Create Ingress Resource(s) |
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| -Ingress resources contain routing rules to one or more backends. An Ingress controller is responsible to apply the rules to the underlying load balancer. |
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| -There are two approaches to create the Ingress resource: |
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| - 1. Use the helm chart [ingress-per-domain](../kubernetes/samples/charts/ingress-per-domain). |
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| - Each Ingress provider supports a number of annotations in Ingress resources. This helm chart allows you to define the routing rules without dealing with the detailed provider-specific annotations. Currently we support two Ingress providers: Traefik and Voyager. |
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| - 1. Create the Ingress resource manually from a YAML file. |
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| - Manually create an Ingress YAML file and then apply it to the Kubernetes cluster. |
| 43 | + After the Ingress controller is running, it monitors Ingress resources in a given namespace(s) and acts accordingly. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +2. Create Ingress resource(s). |
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| 47 | + Ingress resources contain routing rules to one or more backends. An Ingress controller is responsible to apply the rules to the underlying load balancer. |
| 48 | + There are two approaches to create the Ingress resource: |
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| 50 | + a. Use the Helm chart [ingress-per-domain](../kubernetes/samples/charts/ingress-per-domain). |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | + Each Ingress provider supports a number of annotations in Ingress resources. This Helm chart allows you to define the routing rules without dealing with the detailed provider-specific annotations. Currently we support two Ingress providers: Traefik and Voyager. |
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| 54 | + b. Create the Ingress resource manually from a YAML file. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + Manually create an Ingress YAML file and then apply it to the Kubernetes cluster. |
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53 | 58 | ## Guide and samples for Traefik and Voyager/HAProxy
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| -Traefik and Voyager/HAProxy are both popular Ingress controllers. |
| 59 | +Traefik and Voyager/HAProxy are both popular Ingress controllers. |
55 | 60 | Information about how to install and configure these to load balance WebLogic clusters is provided here:
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| - - [Treafik guide](../kubernetes/samples/charts/traefik/README.md) |
| 61 | + - [Traefik guide](../kubernetes/samples/charts/traefik/README.md) |
57 | 62 | - [Voyager guide](../kubernetes/samples/charts/voyager/README.md)
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59 | 64 | Samples are also provided for these two Ingress controllers, showing how to manage multiple WebLogic clusters as the backends, using different routing rules, host-routing and path-routing; and TLS termination:
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| -- [Treafik samples](../kubernetes/samples/charts/traefik/samples) |
| 65 | +- [Traefik samples](../kubernetes/samples/charts/traefik/samples) |
61 | 66 | - [Voyager samples](../kubernetes/samples/charts/voyager/samples)
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