Use Case: I needed to create a proxy which redirects my traffic to my internal service in eks mainly to expose it publicly and i already had a nginx controller installed within my kubernetes cluster. It also supports all of the nginx features like ip whitelisting, lua scripts etc apiVersion : networking.k8s.io/v1 kind : Ingress metadata : annotations : kubernetes.io/ingress.class : nginx kubernetes.io/tls-acme : "true" meta.helm.sh/release-name : "nginx-proxy" meta.helm.sh/release-namespace : default nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/cors-allow-headers : DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Authorization nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/cors-allow-origin : '*' nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/enable-cors : "true" nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/server-snippet : | ##### Allow Traffic from specific Ips ##### #allow x.x.x.x; #allow x.x.x.x;