Failed Ingress Traffic Routing Due to Missing Annotations

Ingress traffic was not properly routed to services due to missing annotations in the ingress resource.

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What Happened

A missing annotation caused the ingress controller to not route external traffic to the right service.

Diagnosis Steps

1Inspected the ingress resource and found missing or incorrect annotations required for routing traffic correctly.
2Applied the correct annotations to the ingress resource.

Root Cause

Missing ingress controller-specific annotations.

Fix/Workaround

• Added the correct annotations to the ingress resource.
• Redeployed the ingress resource and confirmed traffic routing was restored.

Lessons Learned

Always verify the required annotations for the ingress controller.

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