Ingress routing to service based on header set in middleware

Traefik Traefik v2
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Hello,

We are using traefik as our LB in our GCP kubernetes cluster. We have ingresses defined like this:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: api-service-ingress
  annotations:
    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.middlewares: traefik-tenant-api-auth@kubernetescrd
    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.entrypoints: web, websecure
    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.tls: "true"

spec:
  ingressClassName: traefik  
  rules:
    - host: api.website.dev
      http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: api-service
                port:
                  number: 8080

Notice: we are using traefik-api-auth which is forwardAuth which after authorization sets header Code.

What we want to achieve is to route traffic based on Code header. What came clear, that we need to use traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1/IngressRoute which can define matchers, but there are 3 main questions:

  1. Is it possible to use IngressRoute along with Ingress to achieve what we need? (Seems like Ingress takes all the traffic and IngressRoute doesn't even work)
  2. Is it even possible to route based on header which is set in middleware?
  3. If 1 and 2nd are NOs, how can we achieve such routing using traefik without introducing new subdomains?
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