AWS Load Balancer Controller

AWS Load Balancer Controller 2018 (formerly AWS ALB Ingress Controller) is the open-source AWS ALB Ingress controller triggers the creation of an ALB and the necessary supporting AWS resources whenever a Kubernetes user declares an Ingress resource in the cluster.

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/aws-load-balancer-controller.html
• https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-load-balancer-controller/v2.4/

Installation example

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/component: controller
    app.kubernetes.io/name: aws-load-balancer-controller
  name: aws-load-balancer-controller
  namespace: kube-system
  annotations:
    eks.amazonaws.com/role-arn: arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/AmazonEKSLoadBalancerControllerRole

kubectl apply -f aws-load-balancer-controller-service-account.yaml
serviceaccount/aws-load-balancer-controller created

kubectl apply -f aws-load-balancer-controller-service-account.yaml
serviceaccount/aws-load-balancer-controller unchanged

helm install aws-load-balancer-controller eks/aws-load-balancer-controller -n kube-system --set clusterName=education-eks-LZIQaQdP --set serviceAccount.create=false --set serviceAccount.name=aws-load-balancer-controller

NAME: aws-load-balancer-controller
LAST DEPLOYED: Tue May 24 23:48:48 2022
NAMESPACE: kube-system
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
NOTES:
AWS Load Balancer controller installed!

Verify:

kubectl get deployment -n kube-system aws-load-balancer-controller
NAME                           READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
aws-load-balancer-controller   2/2     2            2           75s

kubectl -n kube-system get pods | grep aws-load-balancer-controller
aws-load-balancer-controller-5bcbf46bdb-b4znr   1/1     Running   0          40m
aws-load-balancer-controller-5bcbf46bdb-xgs4s   1/1     Running   0          40m

See also

• ALB, Load balancer (Networking), AWS ALB, openstack loadbalancer create, AWS ALB Ingress Controller, Target group, AWS Load Balancer Controller, alb-http-drop-invalid-header-enabled, Least Outstanding Requests (LOR)
• Ingress controller
• Kubernetes: distributions, tools, CKA, CKS, Kubernetes interfaces: CSI, CNI, installation, workloads, networking, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, kube-proxy, Cloud services: EKS, GKE, TKE, DKS, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes Finalizers, logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind:, Kubernetes namespaces, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors, CoreDNS, CRI, Kubernetes Topology Manager, Kubernetes governance: (SIG, KEP), Kustomize, controllers, ReadinessProbe, LivenessProbe, KOPS, K9s, Kui, k3s, ImagePullBackOff, PDB, EndPoints, Kots, metadata, Karpenter, Replicated.com, Kubernetes Authenticating, Kubernetes timeline, Changelog/Versions, service accounts, Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle, Kubernetes Conformance Certified, Kubernetes backup, Kubernetes Pod Security Admission, tEKS, Kubernetes events, Kubernetes ports, Kubernetes policies, Connect, addons, DoKC, Kubernetes control plane, Kubernetes Federation, Kubernetes info, Kubetest2, Sidecar (Kubernetes)