[renke1]

I was thinking about AWS's Application Load Balancer which already has some kind of rules similar to ingress resources in K8S. I think the LB in Digital Ocean has something similar as well. Having to run (multiple) ingress controller instances in your cluster seems like a waste of resources. Also, if ingress controller specific functionality is used, are ingress resources even the right abstraction?

[p_l]

AWS ALB is exposed as Ingress through alb-ingress-controller. NLB is exposed through Service objects which correspond to L4 load balancers (with Type=LoadBalancer set)