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# Ingress Controller

## Ingress Controller (OSI Layer 7)

* None of the Service types work at OSI Layer 7 (HTTP)
* Ingress Controllers (optional) fo this with 3rd party proxies
* Nginx is popular, but Traefik, HAProxy, F5, Envoy, Istio exist.
* Implementation is specific to the chosen Controller