Prompt
Do I need this if I already have a load balancer and an ingress controller?
Latest observation
Maybe — but I need one detail: what is “this”?
In general:
- Load balancer: exposes traffic to the cluster/service and distributes it.
- Ingress controller: routes HTTP/HTTPS traffic to the right service inside the cluster.
You may not need another component if it’s doing the same job, but you might still need it if it adds something like:
- TLS termination / cert management
- path/host-based routing
- authentication / rate limiting
- service mesh features
- internal traffic management
- observability / retries / circuit breaking
If you tell me the exact tool/component you’re asking about, I can say whether it’s redundant with your load balancer + ingress controller.
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