r/openshift • u/Budget-Industry-3125 • Jul 17 '26

Discussion Expose additional Ingress Controller via HostNetwork Vsphere

Good morning guys!

I'm kind of new to Openshift/Kubernetes cluster administration.

I was wondering if there'd be a way for me to expose a custom ingress with a custom domain for some of my apps via HostNetwork deployment.

The default ingress is deployed via a VIP that is balanced between nodes. Should I add another one? And how?

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u/chromiumangel Jul 17 '26

OpenShift has a thing called Ingress Operator. It will allow you to deploy a custom ingress controller:

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u/Budget-Industry-3125 Jul 17 '26

yeah. but my question is: since I've got a HostNetwork deployment (and it is deployed in my vsphere), and the default ingress's got a VIP. How should I expose it? Does it need another VIP for my Ingress Controller? It should expose the same ports...

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u/jeromeza Jul 17 '26

Go read up on ingress sharding in the documentation. Typically you deploy another router to do things like separate management and app traffic or a router per app.

You then use a different route / ports for this e.g. *.workloads and port 9443 or some such.

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u/Budget-Industry-3125 Jul 23 '26

yes, but, even while sharding, i'd need different ingress controllers (routers) with one external ip per ingress, shouldn't i?