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413 Request Entity Too Large in nginx k8s ingress

I wanted to enable a file upload. Whenever I was uploading I received the error code “413 Request Entity Too Large” from the nginx ingress controller in kubernetes. I found the solution here. Use the following annotation to allow unlimited upload size: 

nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: "0"
In my case, the ingress file definition now looks like this: 
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1 # for versions before 1.14 use extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: my-name
  namespace: my-namespace
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$1
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: "0"
spec:
  # The specs, omitted for readability

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