White Paper TCP, UDP Ingress for KubernetesCitrix | TCP, UDP Ingress for Kubernetes 2 Lack of elegant Ingress solution for TCP, UDP based application In Kubernetes, an Ingress is an object that allows access to the Kubernetes services from outside the Kubernetes cluster. Standard Kubernetes Ingress resources assume that all traffic is HTTP-based and does not cater to TCP, TCPSSL and UDP load balancing. This means a lot of critical applications based on L7 protocols such as DNS, FTP, LDAP, etc. cannot be exposed to user traffic through standard K8s Ingress. To expose TCP/UDP based apps, the only solution is to use LoadBalancer service type. However, using LoadBalancer service type is a costly proposition as you’ve to spin up a dedicated cloud load balancer for each service that

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