Is there a replacement for Ingress coming in the future?

Yes! The Kubernetes team has released the 'Gateway API'. It is the modern, more robust evolution of Ingress that provides better support for multi-tenant clusters and advanced traffic routing (like TCP/UDP and Header-based routing).

Can an Ingress route traffic to a database?

Usually, no. Standard Ingress Controllers (like ingress-nginx) are designed exclusively for HTTP and HTTPS traffic (Layer 7). To route raw TCP traffic to a database, you typically use a standard LoadBalancer Service or configure specialized TCP passthrough on the controller.

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