Overview

• NetScaler cloud native solution

• NetScaler Ingress Controller for Kubernetes

• Supported platforms

• Release notes

Getting started

• Deploy NetScaler Ingress Controller in Kubernetes cluster

• Deploy NetScaler Ingress Controller with CPX in Kubernetes cluster

Deploy NetScaler ingress controller

• Unified ingress

• Dual-tier ingress

• Multi-cluster ingress

• On Rancher

• On PKS

Deployment solutions

• NetScaler Integrated canary deployment solution

• Deploy NetScaler IPAM controller

• BIND DNS integration with IPAM controller and ingress controller

• NetScaler GSLB controller

  • GSLB overview and deployment topologies

  • Deploy NetScaler GSLB controller for multiple sites

  • Deploy NetScaler GSLB controller for single site

• Service mesh lite

NetScaler Operator

• NetScaler Operator release notes

  • Release 3.6.0

  • Release 3.5.0

  • Release 3.4.1

  • Release 3.3.0

  • Release 3.2.0

  • Release 3.1.2

• Upgrade NetScaler Operator

• Deploy NetScaler Operator

• Deploy NetScaler Ingress Controller using NetScaler Operator

• Deploy NetScaler Ingress Controller with CPX using NetScaler Operator

• Deploy NetScaler Cloud Controller using OpenShift Operator

• Deploy NetScaler GSLB Controller using OpenShift Operator

• Deploy NetScaler IPAM controller using NetScaler Operator

• Deploy NetScaler Observability Exporter using NetScaler Operator

Platform integrations

• OpenShift

  • Deploy NetScaler ingress controller as an OpenShift router

  • Deploy NetScaler ingress controller with OpenShift router sharding support

• Cloud

  • Deploy NetScaler CPX™ as an Ingress in Azure Kubernetes Engine

  • Deploy NetScaler ingress controller in an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster with NetScaler VPX™

  • Deploy NetScaler CPX as an Ingress in Google Cloud Platform

  • Deploy NetScaler ingress controller in Anthos Platform

  • Deploy NetScaler VPX in active-active high availability in EKS environment using Amazon ELB and NetScaler ingress controller

  • Citrix® solution for service of type LoadBalancer in AWS

  • Multi-cloud and GSLB solution with Amazon EKS and Microsoft AKS clusters

• NetScaler on vSphere Kubernetes Service on VMware Cloud Foundation

Configure

• Annotations

• ConfigMap

• Ingress

• Ingress class

• Service class

• HTTP, TCP, or SSL Profiles

• Log levels

• SSL certificate for services of type LoadBalancer through the Kubernetes secret resource

• BGP advertisement for type LoadBalancer services and Ingresses using NetScaler CPX

• NetScaler CPX integration with MetalLB in layer 2 mode for on-premises Kubernetes clusters

• Advanced content routing for Kubernetes Ingress using the HTTPRoute CRD

• Profile support for the Listener CRD

• IP address management using the NetScaler IPAM controller for Ingress resources

• Apply CRDs using annotations

• Listener CRD support for Ingress through annotation

• SSL Passthrough support in Listener

• Consistent hashing algorithm

• Add DNS records using NetScaler ingress controller

• Configure OPA

• Exporting metrics directly to Prometheus

• Deploy NetScaler ingress controller for NetScaler with admin partitions

• Network

  • Static routing

  • Establish network between K8s nodes and Ingress NetScaler using node controller

  • OVN-CNI Support for OpenShift using NetScaler Node Controller

  • Expose services of type NodePort

  • Pod to pod communication using Calico

  • Enhancement to services of type LoadBalancer

• Certificate management

  • TLS certificates handling in NetScaler ingress controller

  • TLS client authentication in NetScaler

  • TLS server authentication in NetScaler

  • Install, link, and update certificates on NetScaler using the NetScaler ingress controller

  • Configure SSL passthrough using Kubernetes Ingress

  • Introduction to automated certificate management with cert-manager

  • Deploy HTTPs web applications on K8s with NetScaler ingress controller and Let's Encrypt using cert-manager

  • Deploy HTTPs web application on K8s with NetScaler ingress controller and HashiCorp vault using cert-manager

  • Enable NetScaler certificate validation

  • Disable API server certificate verification

  • Create a self-signed certificate and linking into a Kubernetes secret

• CRDs

  • OWASP Top 10 protection policies

  • Authentication

  • Rate limit

  • Rewrite and Responder policy

  • Remote content inspection or content transformation service using ICAP

  • IPAM or VIP

  • HTTPRoute

  • Content Routing

  • Listener

  • Web application firewall policy

  • Bot

  • CORS

  • Enable request retry using AppQoE

  • Wildcard DNS

• Metrics

  • Integrate with Prometheus and Grafana

  • Analytics and observability

  • Analytics configuration support using ConfigMap

Use cases

• IP address management using the IPAM controller

• Securing ingress

• TCP use cases

• HTTP use cases

• HTTP call out

• Session affinity

• Allowlisting or blocklisting IP addresses

• Interoperability with ExternalDNS

• Use NetScaler credentials stored in Vault server

• Use Kubernetes secrets for storing NetScaler credentials

• Load balance Ingress traffic to UDP-based application

• Set up dual-tier deployment

• Horizontal pod autoscaler

• Direct server return

• Admission controller webhook

• Enable GRPC support

• Policy based routing

• MongoDB solution

• Canary and blue-green deployment using Azure pipelines

• Traffic management for external services

• Support for external name service across namespaces

Upgrade and troubleshooting

• NetScaler CPX configuration persistence during upgrade

• Troubleshooting NetScaler Ingress Controller issues

• Troubleshooting NetScaler node controller issues

• Upgrade NetScaler Ingress Controller

References

• Entity name change

• Entity name change for CRDs

• Licensing