Deploy NetScaler CPX as an Ingress device in Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

September 27, 2025

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This topic explains how to deploy NetScaler CPX as an ingress device in Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters.

CPX in EKS

Deploy NetScaler CPX as an ingress device in Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Deploy the required application in your Kubernetes cluster and expose it as a service in your cluster using the following command.
```
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citrix/citrix-k8s-ingress-controller/master/deployment/aws/manifest/apache.yaml
```
Note:

In this example, apache.yaml is used. You should use the specific YAML file for your application.

Deploy NetScaler CPX as an ingress device in the cluster using the following command.

kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citrix/citrix-k8s-ingress-controller/master/deployment/aws/manifest/standalone_cpx.yaml

Create the ingress resource using the following command.
```
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citrix/citrix-k8s-ingress-controller/master/deployment/aws/manifest/cpx_ingress.yaml
```
An Ingress class named citrix-ingress is used in this example. Please see our detailed Ingress class documentation.
Create a service of type LoadBalancer for accessing the NetScaler CPX by using the following command.
```
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citrix/citrix-k8s-ingress-controller/master/deployment/aws/manifest/cpx_service.yaml
```
Note:

This command creates a load balancer with an external IP/Hostname for receiving traffic.

Verify the service and check whether the load balancer has created an external IP address or hostname.

kubectl  get svc cpx-ingress

|NAME | TYPE | CLUSTER-IP | EXTERNAL-IP | PORT\(S) | AGE |
| --- | ---| ----| ----| ----| ----|
|cpx-ingress |LoadBalancer | 10.7.241.6 |  EXTERNAL-HOSTNAME | 80:32258/TCP,443:32084/TCP | 2m|

Access the application using the following command.

curl http://<External-hostname-of-loadbalancer>/ -H 'Host: citrix-ingress.com'

Quick Deploy

For the ease of deployment, you can just deploy a single all-in-one manifest that would combine the steps explained in the previous topic.

Deploy a NetScaler CPX ingress with in built NetScaler Ingress Controller in your Kubernetes cluster using the all-in-one.yaml.

kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citrix/citrix-k8s-ingress-controller/master/deployment/aws/manifest/all-in-one.yaml

Access the application using the following command.
```
curl http://<External-ip-of-loadbalancer>/ -H 'Host: citrix-ingress.com'
```
Note:

To delete the deployment, use the kubectl delete -f all-in-one.yaml command.

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Deploy NetScaler CPX as an Ingress device in Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

September 27, 2025

Contributed by:

C S

September 27, 2025

Contributed by:

C S

Deploy NetScaler CPX as an Ingress device in Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Deploy NetScaler CPX as an ingress device in Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

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