Application Load Balancer tool reference for Managed Service for Kubernetes

Application Load Balancer provides tools for deploying L7 load balancers in Yandex Managed Service for Kubernetes clusters: Ingress controller and Gateway API. This reference describes Kubernetes resource configurations used by the Ingress controller and Gateway API to deploy an infrastructure.

Ingress controller resourcesIngress controller resources

• Ingress: Backend traffic distribution rules.
• HttpBackendGroup, GrpcBackendGroup: Combining backends into groups.
• IngressClass: Managing multiple Ingress controllers in a Kubernetes cluster.
• Service: Description of Kubernetes services used as backends. It is different from the Service resource for Gateway API: the Ingress controller services support annotations.

Gateway API resourcesGateway API resources

• Gateway: Rules for receiving incoming traffic and selecting routes (HTTPRoute and TLSRoute) for this traffic.
• HTTPRoute: Rules for redirecting or routing HTTP, HTTPS, and gRPC traffic between backends.
• TLSRoute: Rules for routing TLS traffic between backends.
• Service: Description of Kubernetes services used as backends.