Ingress vs Load Balancer

Question

I am quite confused about the roles of Ingress and Load Balancer in Kubernetes.

As far as I understand Ingress is used to map incoming traffic from the internet to t

Answer 1

In simple words, load balancer distributes the requests among multiple backend services (of same type) whereas ingress is more like an API gateway (reverse proxy) which routes the request to a specific backend service based on, for instance, the URL.