Better together - F5 Container Ingress Services and NGINX Plus Ingress Controller Integration

Introduction The F5 Container Ingress Services (CIS) can be integrated with the NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers (NIC) within a Kubernetes (k8s) environment. The benefits are getting the best of both...
Published Mar 05, 2020
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Chris_Zhang
Ret. Employee
Jun 16, 2020

Hey Ali,

 

When you say host-gw, are you referring to adding static routes on the F5 with the pod IP space pointing to the Kubernetes nodes as gateways? It is routing similar to what BGP does but I have not tested it myself. Are you able to reach the Pods from within the F5? You might also need to add routes on the Kubernetes nodes for returning traffic.

 

From a routing's perspective it sounds like a feasible solution. But I don't know if there are intricacies that Calico as a CNI does with regards to routing that we don't know about.

 

Regarding NGINX_IC partition, my understanding is that it's all done by AS3 via ConfigMap. Partition is only an administrative function, creating nodes in Common should not affect data traffic.

 

Thanks,

Chris