Deploying Nginx on Kubernetes#

Nginx shows up in Kubernetes in two completely different roles. First, as a regular Deployment serving static content or acting as a reverse proxy for your application. Second, as an Ingress controller that watches Ingress resources and dynamically reconfigures itself. These are different deployments with different images and different configuration models. Knowing when to use which saves you from over-engineering or under-engineering your setup.

Nginx as a Web Server (Deployment + Service + ConfigMap)#

For serving static files or acting as a reverse proxy in front of your application pods, deploy nginx as a standard Deployment.