Kubernetes Ingress & TLS Secret YAML Builder

Visual manifest generator for Ingress-Nginx, AWS ALB, Traefik, cert-manager SSL certificates, and path routing.

Ingress Controller & Metadata

Ingress Controller:

Resource Name:

Namespace:

Domain Hostname:

Enable HTTPS / TLS Secret (cert-manager)

ClusterIssuer:

TLS Secret Name:

HTTP Routing Rules

Generated Kubernetes Ingress Manifest

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: production-ingress
  namespace: default
  annotations:
    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-prod
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: 50m
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/enable-cors: "true"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/cors-allow-methods: GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/cors-allow-headers: DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Authorization
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "true"
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  rules:
    - host: api.example.com
      http:
        paths:
          - path: /api
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: backend-service
                port:
                  number: 8080
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: frontend-service
                port:
                  number: 80
  tls:
    - hosts:
        - api.example.com
      secretName: api-example-tls

How Kubernetes Ingress Manages Edge Traffic

In a Kubernetes cluster, individual Pods and Services are assigned private, internal IP addresses. A Kubernetes Ingress resource acts as the smart reverse proxy at the edge of the cluster, routing incoming external HTTP/HTTPS traffic to internal services based on request hostname (e.g. api.example.com) and URI path prefixes (e.g. /v1/auth).

Automating SSL with cert-manager

By pairing an Ingress manifest with the cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-prod annotation, the cluster-level cert-manager controller automatically initiates ACME HTTP-01 challenges, provisions free SSL/TLS certificates, stores them securely in a Kubernetes Secret, and manages 90-day automatic renewals without downtime.