# Iterating Towards a More Scalable Ingress

DevFeed: [Iterating Towards a More Scalable Ingress](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/iterating-towards-a-more-scalable-ingress-1459.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/iterating-towards-more-stable-ingress>)

Author: Francisco Mejia

Published: 2018-08-31T18:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nginx.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Production Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/production-engineering.md>)

Tags: [ingress-nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ingress-nginx.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [load-balancer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancer.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nginx.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [production-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production-engineering.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes scaling its Kubernetes infrastructure and migrating cluster ingress from Google Cloud Load Balancer Controller to ingress-nginx. The article focuses on optimizing ingress-nginx dynamic configuration to reduce NGINX reloads and improve performance during frequent deployments.

## Source excerpt

Shopify, the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform, is growing at an incredibly fast pace. Since the beginning of 2016, the number of merchants on the platform increased from 375,000 to 600,000+. As the platform scales, we face new and exciting challenges such as implementing Shopify's Pod architecture and future proofing our cloud storage usage. Shopify's infrastructure relies heavily on Kubernetes to serve millions of requests every minute.