In the Kubernetes world, the Ingress API has been the longstanding staple for getting access to your Services from outside your cluster network. Ingress has served us well over the years and can be found present in several dozen different implementations, but as time has passed and Kubernetes has grown it's become clear that there exists a greater need than Ingress is able to deliver.

Kubernetes took the world by storm in 2014. A CLI-first experience, containers as a first-class citizen, and a need to dynamically scale workloads meant that Kubernetes was the right choice for many teams moving to the cloud. By late 2015, the community realized that there needed to be a standard way to manage traffic at the edge of a cluster and so the Ingress API was born.

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An open-source container management engine called Kubernetes is used to automatically launch, scale, and handle containerized apps. The fundamental unit of a Kubernetes program is a pod. Instead of managing containers, Kubernetes controls pods, and pods enclose containers. A number of containers, storage, IP addresses, and settings that control how containers should operate inside the pod can all be found in a pod. You can operate two closely linked containers together with sidecar containers.