Kubernetes Ingress with Consul and ngrok

In this presentation, Scott McAllister (ngrok) and I explain how to combine HashiCorp Consul and the ngrok Ingress Controller for Kubernetes to enable developers to get their apps on line with ease.

This version of the talk was given at the HashiCorp booth at KubeCon Europe in April 2023.

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Companion Code: github.com/ksatirli/kubernetes-ingress-with-consul-and-ngrok

Transcript

1. Kubernetes Ingress with Consul and ngrok
2. Sr. Developer Advocate at HashiCorp he / him @ksatirli Kerim Satirli
3. Principal Developer Advocate at ngrok he / him @stmcallister Scott McAllister
4. 01 Setting the Stage
5. Challenge: Get our app online.
6. Your service Your customer Before ngrok
7. Your service Your customer Before ngrok Internet NAT 202.45.1.1 192.168.1 SW NAT Internet Router VPN Router VPNs Firewalls Internet Public firewall DMZ Internal firewall email
8. After ngrok Your service Your customer
9. > ngrok CLI ngrok http 80 --domain="kubecon-eu-2023.ngrok.dev" Session Status online Account Scott McAllister (Plan: Pro) Version 3.2.2 Region Europe (eu) Latency 235ms Web Interface http://127.0.0.1:4040 Forwarding https://kubecon-eu-2023.ngrok.dev
10. It all started with a local Kubernetes Cluster.
12. 02 Connecting the Bits
13. ngrok Ingress Controller
14. ngrok Ingress Controller sa-1 eu-1 us-1 outbound TLS kubecon-eu-2023.ngrok.dev
15. ngrok Ingress Controller Middleware Webhook Validation Auth Encryption Load Balancing Unauthorized requests Valid requests
16. Increase Productivity Insulate K8s engineers from hosting infrastructure specifics Insulate developers from managing sidecars, network agents, and VPN clients Increase focus on business outcomes ngrok Ingress Controller Optimize Operations Eliminate network inbound provisioning and agent burden Eliminate bespoke networking Enable multi-cluster deployments Reduce Complexity Automate and secure north-to-south traffic regardless of cluster hosting and infrastructure model Simplifies north-to-south traffic
17. Sample Workload https://kubecon-eu-2023.ngrok.dev/
18. Try it yourself! https://github.com/ksatirli/kubernetes-ingress-with-consul-and-ngrok
19. Thank you speakerdeck.com/ksatirli