Ingress not routing to service: a 7-step fix checklist

Short summary

Kubernetes Ingress failures stem from one of seven issues: pod readiness, Service selector mismatches, port mismatches, missing controller, Ingress rule errors, annotations, or DNS. Diagnose from the pod layer upward using kubectl commands to check pod status, Endpoints, Service ports, controller logs, and Ingress rules. This checklist resolves most failures in under five minutes.

• •Seven-step troubleshooting checklist for broken Kubernetes Ingress configurations
• •Most failures are selector/port/controller mismatches; diagnose from pod layer upward
• •Use kubectl and controller logs for fast diagnosis; avoid wasting time debugging DNS first

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