<p>I have deployed multiple microservices on an AKS cluster and exposed it on nginx ingress controller. The ingress pointing to a static ip with dns as blabla.eastus.azure.com</p>

<p>Application is exposed on blabla.eastus.azure.com/application/ and blabla.eastus.azure.com/application2/ .. etc. </p>

<p>I have created a  Traffic manager profile in blabla.trafficmanager.net in Azure. How should i configure the AKS ingress in traffic manager such that traffic manager reroutes the request to an application deployed on AKS ingress.</p>

<pre><code>---Ingress.yaml configuration used
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ingress
  namespace: ns
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "false"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2
spec:
  rules:
  - host: blabla.eastus.azure.com
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: application1
          servicePort: 80
        path: /application1(/|$)(.*)
      - backend:
          serviceName: application2
          servicePort: 80
        path: /application2(/|$)(.*)
      - backend:
          serviceName: aks-helloworld
          servicePort: 80
        path: /(.*)
</code></pre>

<p>When i hit curl <code>http://blabla.trafficmanager.net</code> the response is default backend - 404</p>

<p>When i update the host to <code>http://blabla.trafficmanager.net</code>, i am able to access the application through <a href="http://blabla.trafficmanager.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blabla.trafficmanager.net</a>\application1</p>

<p>The same is true for any custom cname created. I created a cname as custom.domain.com and redirected it to blabla.eastus.azure.com. So unless i update the host in ingress directly to custom.domain.com I am not able to access it through the custom domain</p>

<p>The actual request will never pass via Traffic Manager. Traffic Manager is a DNS based load balancing solution that is offered by Azure. </p>

<p>When you browse Azure TM endpoint, it resolves and gives you an IP. Then your browser request that IP address.</p>

<p>In your case, your AKS should have a Public Endpoint to which TM can resolve the DNS query. Also you need to create an CNAME record to map TM FQDN to your Custom Domain. If this is not done, you will get 404.</p>

<p>The above mentioned custom header settings are for the probes, but the actual request will be sent from the client browser to the endpoint/IP which the TM resolves to.  </p>
