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Setup the Ingress-NGINX controller

Now that your cluster is initialized to work with Lizz, you can start adding applications.

Add the Ingress controller​

The first application we need is the Ingress Nginx controller to be able to expose the other applications on a public IP address.

Run the following command to add Nginx to your cluster:

lizz add github \
  --owner=$GITHUB_USER \
  --fleet=fleet \
  --origin-url=https://github.com/openlizz/application-nginx \
  --path=./default \
  --destination=nginx \
  --cluster-role \
  --personal

Check the deployment​

Reconcile the fleet repository to deploy the application directly:

flux reconcile source git flux-system

The Ingress Nginx controller is being installed in your cluster and you can check it by running:

kubectl -n ingress-nginx get pod

After some time, the output should be similar to:

NAME                                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
ingress-nginx-controller-686556747b-pk5nh   1/1     Running   0          35s

Obtain public IP address​

When the pod is ready, run the following command to obtain the public IP address of your load balancer created by the Nginx application:

kubectl -n ingress-nginx get svc ingress-nginx-controller

The output is similar to:

NAME                       TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)                      AGE
ingress-nginx-controller   LoadBalancer   10.42.141.173   51.159.207.124   80:31203/TCP,443:32595/TCP   3m40s

The EXTERNAL-IP is the public IP address of your load balancer.

Store it in an environment variable for future use:

export LB_IP=$(kubectl -n ingress-nginx get svc ingress-nginx-controller -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')