# Disable Rancher-Managed Ingress controller

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-rancher-managed-ingress-controller/14170>\
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\
**Created:** [May 5, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-rancher-managed-ingress-controller/14170 "2019-05-05T15:32:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![trondhindenes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/trondhindenes/32/1780_2.png) [@trondhindenes](https://forums.suse.com/u/trondhindenes)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-rancher-managed-ingress-controller/14170/1 "2019-05-05T15:32:32Z")

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We’re planning to use Rancher to provide management, but will use “imported” clusters and we’ll manage ingress controllers ourselves.

I’m testing out a samle deployment, and noticing that the Ingress (under “load balancing”) is stuck in “Initializing”.

We run a custom Traefik deployment on our clusters, so we don’t want Rancher to do any interference with its own ingress controllers etc. Is this possible? Do I need to set some annotation etc in order for Rancher to understand that it shouldn’t manage Ingresses for us?

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-rancher-managed-ingress-controller/14170/2 "2019-05-05T20:58:14Z")

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We don’t “do” anything to the ingress controller. You’re creating an ingress _rule_, and it says initializing because no controller is picking it up and applying that rule.

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**Author:** ![trondhindenes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/trondhindenes/32/1780_2.png) [@trondhindenes](https://forums.suse.com/u/trondhindenes)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-rancher-managed-ingress-controller/14170/3 "2019-05-05T21:05:17Z")

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Gotcha, thanks. I should have clarified better.  
That said, how does rancher know if the ingress rule has been applied by an ingress controller?

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-rancher-managed-ingress-controller/14170/4 "2019-05-05T22:20:32Z")

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status -\> loadBalancer -\> ingress on the rule is updated by the controller with the endpoints the rule is reachable at.