Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes

• Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes
  • Features
  • Before you begin
    • GCE configuration
  • Terraform initialization
  • Installation
  • Uninstall and cleanup

Terraform configuration for deploying Nginx ingress controller in a Kubernetes cluster

Features

• GKE support.
• Automatic DNS management using Google Cloud DNS.
• Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate generation using cert-manager.

Before you begin

The following prerequisites need to be installed and configured:

• Terraform
• Google Cloud SDK (run gcloud components update to update SDK to the latest version if you already have it installed)
• GKE cluster must be created (you may use this Terraform configuration to create it)
• Helm needs to be installed in the Kubernetes cluster

GCE configuration

GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable must be configured to point to GCE JSON key file. For example (PowerShell):

$env:GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS = "C:/mykeys/gce-default.json"

Terraform initialization

Copy terraform.tfvars.example file to terraform.tfvars and set input variables values as per your needs. Then initialize Terraform with init command:

terraform init -backend-config "bucket=$BUCKET_NAME" -backend-config "prefix=apps/$CLUSTER_NAME/nginx-ingress"

• $REGION should be replaced with a region name.
• $CLUSTER_NAME should be replaced with the name of a cluster.
• $BUCKET_NAME should be replaced with a GCS Terraform state storage bucket name.

Installation

To apply the Terraform plan, run:

terraform apply

Uninstall and cleanup

To remove the Terraform plan, run:

terraform destroy

The cert-manager Helm chart included in this plan creates several Custom Resource Definitions that have to be deleted manually:

$ kubectl delete crd certificates.certmanager.k8s.io -n kube-system
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io "certificates.certmanager.k8s.io" deleted

$ kubectl delete crd clusterissuers.certmanager.k8s.io -n kube-system
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io "clusterissuers.certmanager.k8s.io" deleted

$ kubectl delete crd issuers.certmanager.k8s.io -n kube-system
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io "issuers.certmanager.k8s.io" deleted