Sometimes you just want to expose some services that don't have any authentication mechanism. Many users have this issue, especially with Kubernetes, because it is damn easy to expose any service over ingress and also to have HTTPS by default with Let's Encrypt. The missing piece could be authentication in the application you want to expose. In this case, we can always leverage external authentication from GitHub, Google, and many others via OAuth. This is where OAuth2 Proxy comes into ...
