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title: Ingress | Developer Documentation
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After first installing the [LlamaCloud helm chart](https://github.com/run-llama/helm-charts/) into your kubernetes environment, you will be able to test the deployment immediately by port-forwarding the frontend server to your local machine using the following command:

Terminal window

```
kubectl --namespace <your-namespace> port-forward svc/llamacloud-web 3000:80
```

Once that command is running, you will be able to visit the LlamaCloud UI at <http://localhost:3000>.

While this may be sufficient for initial testing of your deployment, you will eventually need to setup the an ingress when taking your deployment to production and leveraging LlamaCloud as an API based service.

## Requirements

- A `super-cool.domain`
- An ingress controller deployed in your kubernetes cluster
  - A popular choice is [`ingress-nginx`](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx)

## Helm Chart Configuration

As of version `0.1.47`, the LlamaCloud helm chart supports the ability to configure an ingress resource for your deployment. The chart supports the following configuration:

values.yaml

```
ingress:
  enabled: true
  host: "<YOUR-HOSTNAME>"
  tlsSecretName: "ingress-nginx-secret"
  ingressClassName: "nginx"
  annotations: {}
```

We recommend setting up the ingress resource using the helm chart configuration above.

Once your ingress endpoint is setup, you can visit the LlamaCloud UI at `https://<your-domain-name>`. And, you can check the status of your ingress resource:

Terminal window

```
kubectl -n llamacloud get ingress


# Example output
NAME                 CLASS    HOSTS                ADDRESS                              PORTS    AGE
llamacloud-ingress   nginx    llamacloud.example   <ip-or-load-balancer-address>        80, 443  10m
```

### Ingress Route Details

- `/api`: route all incoming requests with a path prefix of `/api` to the **llamacloud** service
- `/`: route all other requests to the **llamacloud-web** service

### TLS Configuration

Depending on your ingress controller, you may need to add a TLS secret to your ingress resource. You can specify that in the `.Values.ingress.tlsSecretName` field. Currently, we only support a single host and a single TLS secret. For more information on TLS Secrets, see the [Kubernetes Ingress documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#tls).

## Self-Managed Ingress

To configure ingress for your deployment, apply the following ingress resource to your cluster:

```
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: llamacloud
  namespace: llamacloud
spec:
  ingressClassName: <YOUR-INGRESS-CLASS-NAME>
  rules:
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          service:
            name: llamacloud
            port:
              number: 80
        path: /api
        pathType: Prefix
      - backend:
          service:
            name: llamacloud-web
            port:
              number: 80
        path: /
        pathType: Prefix
```

For information about configuring an ingress resource, see the [Kubernetes Ingress documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/).

### BACKEND\_URL Configuration

The `BACKEND_URL` environment variable is used by the Frontend service to know where to send `/api` requests to. When you self-manage your ingress resource, it is recommended to explicitly set this environment variable so the Frontend service doesn’t have to rely on the internal NextJS proxy to route requests to the Backend service.

```
# The helm charts will automatically configure the BACKEND_URL environment variable for the Frontend service to point to the ingress host.
ingress:
  enabled: true
  host: <YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME>
  tlsSecretName: "tls-secret-name"


# alternative values.yaml
frontend:
  extraEnvVariables:
    - name: BACKEND_URL
      value: "https://<your-domain-name>"
  volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: "/mount/path/to/your/certificate-mount-path/cert.pem"
      name: ca-certs
      readOnly: true
  volumes:
    - name: ca-certs
      secret:
        secretName: ca-cert-secret
```

## Common Issues

- When an ingress resource is created, sometimes the frontend service may not be able to resolve the certificate. Users may experience slowness or failure during the login flow if this happens and may see an `UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE` error in the frontend logs.

  - There are easy and hard ways to resolve this issue.

  - The easy way is to set `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0` in the Frontend deployment with `.Values.frontend.extraEnvVariables`. This will tell the Frontend to ignore the certificate error. One drawback of this approach is that it may not be accepted by your organization’s security policies.

  - The harder way is enable the Frontend pod to resolve the certificate you used to sign the ingress host. You can do this by mounting the certificate into the Frontend pod.

  - If you are using a self-signed certificate, you can use the following to generate a certificate and key:

    Terminal window

    ```
    # create a configmap with the Certificate Authority
    kubectl create configmap ca-cert-config --from-file=<certificate-authority-name>.pem=/local/path/to/your/<certificate-authority-name>.pem
    ```

  - Then, you can mount the configmap into the Frontend pod and add the NODE\_EXTRA\_CA\_CERTS environment variable:

    ```
    # In the values.yaml file:
    frontend:
      extraEnvVariables:
        - name: NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS
          value: "/mount/path/to/your/certificate-mount-path/cert.pem"
    ```

- If you do not have an automated DNS setup, you will need to provide the IP address of the ingress resource to your DNS provider.

If you require assistance with setting up an ingress resource, please reach out to us on [support at llamaindex.ai](mailto:support@llamaindex.ai) and we will be happy to help you!