How to setup ingress to serve static content on kubernetes?

[kevin-jj]

How to setup ingress to serve static content at my app? The following annotation does not work. Since the Nginx ingress runs on a separate deployment with app pod, it seems like it cloud not access static content in app pod.
@pleshakov

annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
nginx.org/client-max-body-size: "2m"
nginx.org/server-snippets: |
location ~ ^/(assets)/{
root /var/www/test/public;
gzip_static on;
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
}

[isaachawley]

The Ingress Controller is not designed to serve static content. If you'd like to serve static content, consider having a separate Service for it.

See #257 (comment)

[demidovsky]

I know that this is an old issue, but for some cases the answer on "How to setup ingress to serve static content on kubernetes?" may be just setting add-base-url: "true" and rewrite-target: / annotations,

e.g.

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: my-ingress-nginx
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/add-base-url: "true"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
spec:
  rules:
  - host: some.kind.of.hostname.co
    http: &rules
      paths:
      - path: /path/to
        backend:
          serviceName: some-website-serving-static
          servicePort: 80
      - path: /
        backend:
          serviceName: another-service
          servicePort: 80

Hope this helps someone.

[blind3dd]

it works fine indeed, but be careful with rewrites :)

[majidshaikh16]

It

I know that this is an old issue, but for some cases the answer on "How to setup ingress to serve static content on kubernetes?" may be just setting add-base-url: "true" and rewrite-target: / annotations,

e.g.

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: my-ingress-nginx
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/add-base-url: "true"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
spec:
  rules:
  - host: some.kind.of.hostname.co
    http: &rules
      paths:
      - path: /path/to
        backend:
          serviceName: some-website-serving-static
          servicePort: 80
      - path: /
        backend:
          serviceName: another-service
          servicePort: 80

Hope this helps someone.

Hi @demidovsky,
I did similarly but still, it's not serving the js or CSS files I am using angular as my frontend
My Ingress file:

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: ingress-service
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/add-base-url: "true"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
spec:
rules:
- http:
paths:
- path: /app
backend:
serviceName: food-app-cluster-ip-services
servicePort: 80

Issue:

[wriver1]

I have the same problem

[majidshaikh16]

I have solved the issue by setting the base URL for all the static content to eg: /app/style.js from style.js and then it worked fine for me.

[oscarlofwenhamn]

Be advised that the nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io annotations relate to the kubernetes/ingress-nginx and not this one. You can find all annotations for the nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress via the official docs.

You can see this because pretty much all nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress annotations are prefixed by nginx.org or nginx.com, and the kubernetes/ingress-nginx annotations by nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io (by default). Hopefully this can help some who are troubleshooting and looking for the correct docs.