# Meshing non-Ingress nginx pods

**URL:** <https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/meshing-non-ingress-nginx-pods/108>\
**Category:** Linkerd General Discussion\
**Tags:** ingress\
**Created:** [May 1, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/meshing-non-ingress-nginx-pods/108 "2023-05-01T10:56:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![simonjefford](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/linkerd.buoyant.io/simonjefford/32/80_2.png) [@simonjefford](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/simonjefford)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/meshing-non-ingress-nginx-pods/108/1 "2023-05-01T10:56:13Z")

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Hi.

We have a number of nginx instances running on our cluster. These are not ingress controllers, but plain ol’ nginx instances with custom configs (we are porting an application that used a number of these). They are simply configured as LoadBalancer services.

How do we, for the purposes of observability, mesh the incoming traffic to these pods? We are running on AKS.

Many thanks,

Simon

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**Author:** ![Alex](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/linkerd.buoyant.io/alex/32/63_2.png) [@Alex](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/u/Alex)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://linkerd.buoyant.io/t/meshing-non-ingress-nginx-pods/108/2 "2023-05-03T19:04:14Z")

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Hi @simonjefford

Even though nginx isn’t running as an ingress controller, the same principles from [Ingress traffic | Linkerd](https://linkerd.io/2.13/tasks/using-ingress/#nginx) should still apply. You can mesh these nginx pods normally but you’ll want to make sure your nginx is configured to use “service-upstream”.