External nginx Ingress controller

Rancher 2.x
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HI,
I have spinup a k8s cluster using RKE v1.2.11. and recently I upgraded it to RKE v1.3.11 which is the latest stable version. I have a requirement to upgrade the Nginx version to >1.20.x.
With the default ingress controller, I found that nginx version was 1.19.10.
So that I disabled the default ingress controller and installed some nginx ingress controller using helm charts. But with that Im facing below issues:

  1. The annotations are not applied to ingress.
    (Ex: Basic authentication is not working, headers applied with annotation are not applied)
  2. Can not expose TCP Traffic with a seperate port

Can anyone suggest to me a better way to install nginx ingress controller to my rke cluster??

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Me again,
I just wanna know whether the rancher supports Nginx Ingress Controllers install by helm??
We have found a bug in the current version of nginx(v1.19.10). Bug details (Vulnerable versions are listed there)
Don’t we have a fixed version of nginx (ex: > Nginx v1.20.1) to overcome the above bug?

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You might try asking on Slack instead, more Rancher folks drop by there.

I’ve seen Rancher people mention how to disable installing an ingress controller at all in K3S & RKE2 and then people can manage manually. That hearsay is about all I can say personally, though.

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I use an external NGinx Ingress Controller, to be able to have a service with type LaodBalancer, and dynamically deploy a LB (Octavia/OpenStack) on my cluster.

It works here.

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