Ingress Operator in Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

When you create your Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS cluster, pods and services running on the cluster are each allocated their own IP addresses. The IP addresses are accessible to other pods and services running nearby but are not accessible to outside clients. The Ingress Operator implements the IngressController API and is the component responsible for enabling external access to Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS cluster services.

The Ingress Operator makes it possible for external clients to access your service by deploying and managing one or more HAProxy-based Ingress Controllers to handle routing. Red Hat Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) manage the Ingress Operator for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS clusters. While you cannot alter the settings for the Ingress Operator, you may view the default Ingress Controller configurations, status, and logs as well as the Ingress Operator status.

The Ingress Operator is a core feature of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS and is enabled out of the box.

Every new Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS installation has an ingresscontroller named default. It can be supplemented with additional Ingress Controllers. If the default ingresscontroller is deleted, the Ingress Operator will automatically recreate it within a minute.

You can view and inspect the status of your Ingress Operator.

You can view your Ingress Controller logs.

Your can view the status of a particular Ingress Controller.

The following table details the components of the Ingress Operator and if Red Hat Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) maintains this component on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS clusters.