Hi David, On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 11:18:10AM -0800, David Karr wrote: > I maintain the Java side of a platform that supports a couple of hundred > services running in a number of k8s clusters. Each pod has a container > running the Java process, and a container running nginx, as a proxy to the > Java service. All the k8s service objects are type NodePort, not ClusterIP. > > I don't know a lot about nginx, we consider it mostly a blackbox.
How's nginx configured there? Is it L7 or L4 reverse proxy? > We have one service that unfortunately requires session stickiness. The "session persistense" feature avaialable with NGINX Plus product, [1]. > I am being told that we have to change the service type for this service > to ClusterIP, because, and I quote the person who told me this: > > "Nginx needs to be able to read the "endpoint" objects off of the > service. For some reason, that's not possible with NodePorts, but works > fine with ClusterIPs." > > Does this make sense to anyone here? Can someone explain why this might be? That's a bit unclear to me, so that needs to get more details about the current solution. Thank you. References ---------- 1. https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-load-balancer/#enabling-session-persistence -- Sergey A. Osokin _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
