I'm using kubernetes and containers. nginx ingress controller. Also nginx container is serving up static content. The landing page (static) works just fine (checked with incognito, no caching). Soon as I go to a page that requires rendering something from the backend, it times out.

I logged into the containers and cannot see any immediate issues in the log files or elsewhere. I shut down all the containers and started them fresh. Still nothing from the Django side is responding.

Here is my nginx config (in Kubernetes/yaml format):

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: nginx-config
data:
  nginx.conf: |
    events {
      worker_connections  1024;
    }
    http {
      server {
        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
        listen 8080;
        server_name localhost;

        location ^~ /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
          default_type "text/plain";
        }

        location /static/ {
          autoindex on;    
          alias /code/core/static/; 
          include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
        }

        location = /favicon.ico {
        access_log off;
        log_not_found off;
        }

        location / {
          proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
          proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
        }
      }
    }

I can't tell what the issue is. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot?