im a bit new with deployments to kuberentes but to summarize, im trying to deploy my laravel API to kuberentes via digital ocean.

I’ve setup all the nitty gritty to get my laravel api dockerized, in an image and deployed to a pod. Everything gets deployed nicely, (My api and sql)

When i access my backend api via the host (/), i see my index page which is good. But when i try to access my /api page.

I get the (Not found page)

I’m a bit confused on why this happens since my index page / works fine and i see everything but my api endpoints are not accessible.

A quick side note is that the (/) page that shows is from the routes/web.php route.
And now i want to access my api endpoints which are in the /routes/api.php

Would appreciate if anyone has some advise on why i might be getting this.

This is my deployment.yaml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: backend
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: backend
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: backend
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: backend
          image: my_image
          ports:
            - containerPort: 80
          env:
            - name: APP_ENV
              value: "production"
            - name: APP_KEY
              value: "some_key"

This is my ingress.yaml

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: backend-ingress
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  rules:
    - host: "my host ip"
      http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: backend
                port:
                  number: 80

And my service.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: backend
spec:
  selector:
    app: backend
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: 80
  type: ClusterIP