Ingress Glossary Definition

Term Ingress
Definition

Ingress is a Cloud container or Kubernetes concept used to package, schedule, run, or manage application workloads across distributed infrastructure.

Ingress is a Network cloud or modern infrastructure concept used to connect workloads, services, users, and platforms across virtualized or distributed environments.
Context & Usage

Platform engineers and developers use this concept when standardizing application packaging, scheduling workloads, and running services across clusters.

Related concepts include Container, Container Orchestration and Cluster.

Additional Resource: CNCF Cloud Native Glossary.

Cloud and DevOps teams use this concept when connecting workloads across regions, clusters, services, private networks, and Internet-facing entry points.

Related concepts include Routing.

Additional Resource: Cloud Native Computing Foundation: Service Mesh.

Related concepts include Kubernetes, Load Balancing and API Gateway.
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