Note that nginx-ingress has limitations as a side effect of its Lua balancer vs normal nginx. As an example, it does NOT do TLS-resume on the nginx<->service hop. Normal nginx would, but the lua balancer lacks the necessary code [1]. In some high volume scenarios, this can cause trouble on the backend.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 12.9 ms ] threadIn this case, it depends on the ingress controller used. The default nginx ingress case has some docs: https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/how-it-works/
Note that nginx-ingress has limitations as a side effect of its Lua balancer vs normal nginx. As an example, it does NOT do TLS-resume on the nginx<->service hop. Normal nginx would, but the lua balancer lacks the necessary code [1]. In some high volume scenarios, this can cause trouble on the backend.
[1] https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module/pull/1312