I want to have a publicly routable url to a user specific pod (with one container exposing port 80) on kubernetes.

i.e every end user will get a pod when they are active in the system, when they become inactive the pod is killed, when they become active again they get a new pod with a new url.

I am looking for a solution where I can goto .example.com -> which would proxy to pod1 running for a user.

I have tried to have create one service per user with one pod running. And I add the rules to nginx ingress manually to route to a user specific service. This seems to work. However, I am not sure if this is a scalable option where I can have 10k+ users which would mean 10k+ services and 10k+ rules in ingress.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks.