<p>I really like the kubernetes Ingress schematics. I currently run <code>ingress-nginx</code> controllers to route traffic into my kubernetes pods.</p>

<p>I would like to use this to also route traffic to 'normal' machines: ie vm's or physical nodes that are not part of my kubernetes infrastructure. Is this possible? How?</p>

<p>In Kubernetes you can define an externalName service in which you define a FQND to an external server.</p>

<pre><code>kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: my-service
  namespace: prod
spec:
  type: ExternalName
  externalName: my.database.example.com
</code></pre>

<p>Then you can use <code>my-service</code> in your nginx rule.</p>
