Adding websockets/port 6001 to Kubernetes Ingress deployed via Helm - Connection Refused - kubernetes

Question

We currently have a multi-tenant backend laravel application set up, with pusher websockets enabled on the same app. This application is built into a docker image and hosted on Digital Ocean container registry, and deployed via HELM to our Kubernetes Cluster.
We also have a front end application built in angular that tries to connect to the backend app via port 80 on the /ws/ path to establish a websocket connection.
When we try to access the tenant1.example.com/ws/ we get a 502 gateway error, which suggests the ports arent mapping correctly? but tenant1.example.com port 80 works just fine.
Our heml chart yaml is as follows:
NAME: tenant1
LAST DEPLOYED: Fri Dec 11 14:34:00 2020
NAMESPACE: tenants
STATUS: pending-install
REVISION: 1
USER-SUPPLIED VALUES:
subdomain: tenant1
COMPUTED VALUES:
affinity: {}
autoscaling:
enabled: true
maxReplicas: 1
minReplicas: 1
targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 80
fullnameOverride: ""
image:
pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
repository: nginx
tag: ""
imagePullSecrets: []
ingress:
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
enabled: true
hosts:
- host: example.com
pathType: Prefix
tls: []
migrate:
enabled: true
nameOverride: ""
nodeSelector: {}
podAnnotations: {}
podSecurityContext: {}
replicaCount: 1
resources:
requests:
cpu: 10m
rootDB: public
securityContext: {}
service:
port: 80
type: ClusterIP
serviceAccount:
annotations: {}
create: true
name: ""
setup:
enabled: true
subdomain: tenant1
tolerations: []
---
# Source: backend-api/templates/serviceaccount.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: tenant1-backend-api
labels:
helm.sh/chart: backend-api-0.1.0
app: backend-api
app.kubernetes.io/version: "1.16.0"
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
---
# Source: backend-api/templates/service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: tenant1-backend-api-service
namespace: tenants
spec:
type: ClusterIP
ports:
- port: 80
targetPort: 80
name: 'http'
selector:
app: tenant1-backend-api-deployment
---
# Source: backend-api/templates/service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: tenant1-backend-api-ws-service
namespace: tenants
spec:
type: ClusterIP
ports:
- port: 6001
targetPort: 6001
name: 'websocket'
selector:
app: tenant1-backend-api-deployment
---
# Source: backend-api/templates/deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: tenant1-backend-api-deployment
namespace: tenants
labels:
helm.sh/chart: backend-api-0.1.0
app: backend-api
app.kubernetes.io/version: "1.16.0"
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: tenant1-backend-api-deployment
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: tenant1-backend-api-deployment
namespace: tenants
spec:
containers:
- name: backend-api
image: "registry.digitalocean.com/rock/backend-api:latest"
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- containerPort: 80
- containerPort: 6001
resources:
requests:
cpu: 10m
env:
- name: CONTAINER_ROLE
value: "backend-api"
- name: DB_CONNECTION
value: "pgsql"
- name: DB_DATABASE
value: tenant1
- name: DB_HOST
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: postgresql-database-creds
key: DB_HOST
- name: DB_PORT
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: postgresql-database-creds
key: DB_PORT
- name: DB_USERNAME
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: postgresql-database-creds
key: DB_USERNAME
- name: DB_PASSWORD
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: postgresql-database-creds
key: DB_PASSWORD
---
# Source: backend-api/templates/hpa.yaml
apiVersion: autoscaling/v2beta1
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
name: tenant1-backend-api-hpa
namespace: tenants
labels:
helm.sh/chart: backend-api-0.1.0
app: backend-api
app.kubernetes.io/version: "1.16.0"
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
spec:
scaleTargetRef:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
name: tenant1-backend-api-deployment
minReplicas: 1
maxReplicas: 1
metrics:
- type: Resource
resource:
name: cpu
targetAverageUtilization: 80
---
# Source: backend-api/templates/ingress.yaml
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: tenant1-backend-api-ingress
namespace: tenants
labels:
helm.sh/chart: backend-api-0.1.0
app: backend-api
app.kubernetes.io/version: "1.16.0"
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
spec:
rules:
- host: tenant1.example.com
http:
paths:
- path: /
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: tenant1-backend-api-service
port:
number: 80
- path: /ws/
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: tenant1-backend-api-ws-service
port:
number: 6001