overview.md

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Voyager

Voyager is a HAProxy backed secure L7 and L4 ingress controller for Kubernetes developed by AppsCode. This can be used with any Kubernetes cloud providers including aws, gce, gke, azure, acs. This can also be used with bare metal Kubernetes clusters.

Ingress

Voyager provides L7 and L4 loadbalancing using a custom Kubernetes Ingress resource. This is built on top of the HAProxy to support high availability, sticky sessions, name and path-based virtual hosting. This also support configurable application ports with all the options available in a standard Kubernetes Ingress.

• HTTP
  • Exposing Service via Ingress
  • Virtual Hosting
  • Supports Loadbalancer Source Range
  • URL and Request Header Re-writing
  • Enable CORS
  • Custom HTTP Port
  • Using External Service as Ingress Backend
  • HSTS
  • Forward Traffic to StatefulSet Pods
  • Configure Sticky session to Backends
  • Blue Green Deployments using weighted Loadbalancing
• TLS/SSL
  • TLS Termination
  • Backend TLS
  • Supports AWS certificate manager
• TCP
  • TCP LoadBalancing
• Configuration
  • Customize generated HAProxy config via BackendRule (can be used for http rewriting, add health checks, etc.)
  • Apply Frontend Rules
  • Supported Annotations
  • Specify NodePort
  • Configure global options
  • Configure Custom Timeouts for HAProxy
  • Using Custom HAProxy Templates
• Security
  • Configure Basic Auth for HTTP Backends
  • TLS Authentication
• Monitoring
  • Exposing HAProxy Stats
• Scaling Ingress
• Placement of Ingress Pods

Certificate

Voyager can automagically provision and refresh SSL certificates issued from Let's Encrypt using a custom Kubernetes Certificate resource.

• Provision free TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt,
• Manage issued certificates using a Kubernetes Third Party Resource,
• Domain validation using ACME dns-01 challenges,
• Support for multiple DNS providers,
• Auto Renew Certificates,
• Use issued Certificates with Ingress to Secure Communications.