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I have recently started using OpenShift for work and thought, why not create my own cluster at home? I have a bunch of Raspberry Pis (and Orange Pi) lying around, and it would be nice if I can have a playground cluster available.

After some digging, I have decided to use K3s as it seems more appropriate for IoT. I am using the latest Raspberry Pi OS image (2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.img) available. Installation went smoothly. I was able to run pods, have the pods communicate via services etc. However, when attempting to create an ingress, it fails.

My deployment and service configuration:

	
		apiVersion: apps/v1
		kind: Deployment
		apiVersion: apps/v1
		kind: Deployment
		metadata:
		  name: mysite
		  labels:
		    app: mysite
		spec:
		  replicas: 1
		  selector:
		    matchLabels:
		      app: mysite
		  template:
		    metadata:
		      labels:
		        app: mysite
		    spec:
		      containers:
		      - name: httpd
		        image: httpd:latest
		        ports:
		        - containerPort: 80
		---
		apiVersion: v1
		kind: Service
		metadata:
		  name: mysite-service
		spec:
		  selector:
		    app: mysite
		  ports:
		  - protocol: TCP
		    port: 80
	

My ingress configuration:

	
		apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
		kind: Ingress
		metadata:
		  name: mysite-ingress
		  annotations:
		    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "traefik"
		spec:
		  rules:
		  - host: k8s.example.com
		    http:
		      paths:
		      - backend:
		          serviceName: mysite-service
		          servicePort: 80
	

As you can see, everything should be working fine, but it's not. The ingress was created, but it's acting as if it's not.

After days of digging, I was finally able to figure out the problem. As it turns out, Traefik, the default ingress controller of K3s, doesn't work with iptables-nft (for now). This can easily be resolved by switching iptables to legacy and rebooting:

	
		sudo update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy
		sudo reboot -h now
	

Once booted up, you should be able to access your pod via the ingress.