Amazon EKS — Load Balancing & Ingress
Chapter 10 — Load Balancing & Ingress
Exposing applications to users requires load balancers and ingress controllers. This chapter covers the AWS Load Balancer Controller, ALB Ingress, NLB Services, and SSL/TLS termination.
What You’ll Learn
- AWS Load Balancer Controller setup
- Application Load Balancer (ALB) for HTTP/HTTPS
- Network Load Balancer (NLB) for TCP/UDP
- Ingress resources and routing rules
- SSL/TLS with ACM certificates
Chapter Topics
| # | Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS Load Balancer Controller | The controller that provisions ALBs and NLBs |
| 2 | ALB Ingress | HTTP/HTTPS routing with Application Load Balancer |
| 3 | NLB Services | TCP/UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer |
| 4 | SSL/TLS Termination | HTTPS with ACM certificates |
| 5 | Advanced Routing | Path-based, host-based, weighted routing |
| 6 | Practice Exercises | 5 hands-on exercises |
Let’s start: AWS Load Balancer Controller
