NGINX ingress controller with Dapr

TarrantRo
3 min readJan 22, 2022

Intro

I started to use dapr as our API runtime plus service mesh controller. The question in our architect is that, Dapr is not designed to be publicly facing and therefore should be used behind an ingress controller or API gateway.

How am I going to route the external session to call internal dapr invoke API without expose services? To solve it, I’m going to use NGINX as our gateway between internal services and APIM.

I found multiple documents from the internet and it seems that those are missing some setups. I…

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TarrantRo

IT guy who love movies, Japanese manga. Have some experiences in Linux system, container/k8s, devops, cloud, etc.