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Why is Ingress preferred over multiple LoadBalancer Services?

Junior Kubernetes
Quick Answer Each LoadBalancer Service provisions an external load balancer รขโ‚ฌโ€ expensive and slow to provision (cloud load balancers can take minutes and cost money). With Ingress, one external load balancer feeds one Ingress Controller, which routes to many Services based on host and path rules. Much cheaper, faster, and easier to manage at scale.

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Ingress consolidates routing and reduces cost.
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