Articles by KENNETH

Enabling Self-Service DNS and Certificate Management in Kubernetes The ultimate goal of application development is, of course, to expose apps on the Internet. For a developer, Kubernetes simplifies this process to a degree by providing the Ingress controller as the mechanism for routing requests to the application. But not everything is as self‑service as you probably would like: you still need a record in the Domain Name System (DNS) to map the domain name for the app to the Ingress controller’s IP address and a TLS certificate to secure connections using HTTPS. In most organizations, you don’t own DNS or TLS yourself and so have to coordinate with the operational group (or groups!) that do. Things aren’t necessarily any easier for operators. In most organizations the need to update DNS records is rare enough that procedures – both business rules and [ more… ]