Jira traffic distribution with Kubernetes ingress?

Question

Hi community!

I want to send all traffic to /jira/rest to a specific Jira node/ pod. I succeeded but when I login onto the UI and navigate to another page within Jira I am logged out again. I assume it is realted because of the following:

This related articles mentions:

Configure the load balancer to only direct REST API traffic with the following conditions:
- Referred externally from the application
- Not requesting the login page

I did not configure those conditions yet. Does anyone know how to do it in an nginx ingress rule?

Charlie Misonne · Answer

Thanks for your answer.

What you describe is exactly what I did and session affinity is also configured.

The routing for /jira/rest works. It always goes to my jira-0 pod. But it causes issues in the UI. Probably because I did not set the 2 conditions.

As a workaround we will use a dedicated hostname for the API.

Yevhen_5guu4k · Answer

I am in no way an expert in Jira but I guess if I had to solve such a problem with Nginx ingress controller I'd:

* create a new service which uses a unique label (pods in the statefulset will have it)

* add another path to your spec.rules.http.paths and use your new service as a backend

Also there's a general requirement to make sure you have session affinity (sticky cookies) enabled for your ingress.