Ingress
Prepare your environment for this section:
This will make the following changes to your lab environment:
- Install the AWS Load Balancer Controller in the Amazon EKS cluster
You can view the Terraform that applies these changes here.
Kubernetes Ingress is an API resource that allows you to manage external or internal HTTP(S) access to Kubernetes services running in a cluster. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancer (ALB) is a popular AWS service that load balances incoming traffic at the application layer (layer 7) across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, in a region. ALB supports multiple features including host or path based routing, TLS (Transport Layer Security) termination, WebSockets, HTTP/2, AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) integration, integrated access logs, and health checks.
In this lab exercise, we'll expose our sample application using an ALB with the Kubernetes ingress model.