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Amazon EKS - Install the AWS Load Balancer Controller and Create an Ingress Resource (ALB)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes

Students: 300

Rating: 3/5

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Description

The AWS Load Balancer Controller is used to help manage and control the provisioning of ALBs (Ingress resources) and NLBs (Service resources - type LoadBalancer).

In this lab scenario, you'll learn how to deploy the AWS Load Balancer Controller into the lab-provided EKS cluster using Helm. You'll then deploy a sample web app and configure external public access to it via an Ingress cluster resource.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab, you will be able to:

Deploy and configure the AWS Load Balancer Controller into an EKS cluster
Deploy a sample web app and expose it publicly using an Ingress resource

Intended Audience

This lab is intended for:

Kubernetes practitioners
DevOps Engineers
SREs

Lab Prerequisites

You should be familiar with:

Basic Linux command line administration
Basic Kubernetes and Container-based concepts

Consider taking the following courseware in preparation for this lab:

Introduction to Kubernetes

Lab Environment

This lab will start with the following AWS resources provisioned automatically for you:

1 x EKS cluster - Cluster-1 - provides a fully functional Kubernetes cluster
- 1 x NodeGroup
  - 1 x EC2 Worker Node
2 x EC2 instances
- eks.launch.instance - used to launch the EKS cluster
- cloudacademylabs - used to provide an SSH based terminal