Here are two approaches to achieve your goal:
- LoadBalancer Service with Traefik:
Create a LoadBalancer Service: Define a LoadBalancer service in your Kubernetes manifest for your Traefik deployment. This service automatically provisions an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). Configure Traefik Ingress: Create an Ingress resource that points to your Traefik service. This tells Traefik to route incoming traffic based on the defined rules. External Access: The ELB gets a public DNS name. You can use this DNS name to access your application externally. 2. NodePort Service with Traefik (Limited Use Case):
Note: This approach is generally not recommended for production due to security concerns and managing individual node IPs.
Create a NodePort Service: Define a NodePort service for your Traefik deployment. This exposes Traefik on a random port on each node in the managed node group. Configure Traefik Ingress: Similar to the LoadBalancer approach, configure an Ingress resource pointing to your Traefik service. External Access: To access your application externally, you'd need to know the IP address of a specific node in the managed node group and use the NodePort assigned to Traefik on that node (format: <node_ip>:).