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Installing NGINX ingress controller into EKS

Installing NGINX ingress controller into EKS - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Installing NGINX ingress controller into EKS

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- [Instructor] Now that our EKS cluster is up, our next order of business is to install the NGINX Ingress controller. This process is similar to what we did for our KIND cluster. First, we'll open a browser and visit kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx. Once we're here, click on deployment. Then click on AWS on the right side. Copy the first code block that you see under network load balancer, NLB. Go back to your terminal, then paste it in, and hit enter. You'll see a lot of stuff get created like we saw when we did this in KIND. That means that this is working. Once this is done, run kubectl get svc, or SVC, - n ingress-nginx and you'll see in Ingres NGINX controller here, with a cluster IP over here and this really long DNS record over here. This is a little different than what it looked like when we did this in KIND. Unlike when we did this in KIND, this Ingress NGINX controller service gets a real DNS record attached to it. The reason for this is that when we ran kubectl apply…

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