Re:Knative – Kubernetes-based platform to manage modern serv...
by pas on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:24AM
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I think there's a Kong ingress controller, that gets you a very powerful nginx setup.
https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller
Knative uses parts of Istio for servign and TLS/SSL setup: https://github.com/knative/docs/blob/master/serving/using-an...
It's a bit funny that knative serving is so complicated I have still no idea what they use under the many layers of abstraction (probably something hacked together in go), and I don't understand why don't they use a generic configurable ingress component.
I had to learn Kubernetes very recently and this seems to simplify a lot of the boilerplate needed to have an app running.
One the most grating part for me was having the ingress run with a proper SSL certificate with the right handshakes though (had to install a nginx controller just for that).
That’s the kind of things that everyone will go through, and is solved in one click on heroku. Yet it seems to be left out of all the samples, if it’s out of the scope that diminishes a lot the appeal.