Kubernetes - Ingress - caught by a more general rule

Question

I'm trying to set up an Ingress rule for a service (Kibana) running in my microk8s cluster but I'm having some problems.

The first rule set up is

Name:             web-ingress
Namespace:        default
Address:          127.0.0.1
Default backend:  default-http-backend:80 (<error: endpoints "default-http-backend" not found>)
TLS:
  k8s-ingress-tls terminates web10
Rules:
  Host        Path  Backends
  ----        ----  --------
  *
              /   web-service:8080 (10.1.72.26:8080,10.1.72.27:8080)
Annotations:  nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
              nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: false
Events:       <none>

I'm trying to set Kibana service to get served on path /kibana

Name:             kibana
Namespace:        default
Address:          127.0.0.1
Default backend:  default-http-backend:80 (<error: endpoints "default-http-backend" not found>)
TLS:
  k8s-ingress-tls terminates web10
Rules:
  Host        Path  Backends
  ----        ----  --------
  *
              /kibana(/|$)(.*)   kibana:5601 (10.1.72.39:5601)
Annotations:  nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: false
Events:
  Type    Reason  Age   From                      Message
  ----    ------  ----  ----                      -------
  Normal  CREATE  17m   nginx-ingress-controller  Ingress default/kibana
  Normal  UPDATE  17m   nginx-ingress-controller  Ingress default/kibana

My problem is that first thing Kibana does is returns a 302 redirect to host/login?next=%2F which gets resolved by the first Ingress rule because now I've lost my /kibana path.

I tried adding nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /kibana/$2 but redirect then just looks like host/login?next=%2Fkibana%2F which is not what I want at all.

If I delete the first rule, I just get 404 once Kibana does a redirect to host/login?next=%2F

Answer 1

Add the following annotation to the kibana ingress so that nginx-ingress interprets the /kibana(/|$)(.*) path using regex:

 nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: "true"

Additional detail: To let kibana know that it runs on /kibana path, add the following env variable to the kibana pod/deployment:

        - name: SERVER_BASEPATH
          value: /kibana