Creating an instance of the AWS Load Balancer Controller - AWS Load Balancer Operator | Networking

Creating an instance of the AWS Load Balancer Controller using AWS Load Balancer Operator

After installing the Operator, you can create an instance of the AWS Load Balancer Controller.

Creating an instance of the AWS Load Balancer Controller using AWS Load Balancer Operator

You can install only a single instance of the aws-load-balancer-controller in a cluster. You can create the AWS Load Balancer Controller by using CLI. The AWS Load Balancer(ALB) Operator reconciles only the resource with the name cluster.

Prerequisites

You have created the echoserver namespace.
You have access to the OpenShift CLI (oc).

Procedure

Create an aws-load-balancer-controller resource YAML file, for example, sample-aws-lb.yaml, as follows:

apiVersion: networking.olm.openshift.io/v1alpha1
kind: AWSLoadBalancerController (1)
metadata:
  name: cluster (2)
spec:
  subnetTagging: Auto (3)
  additionalResourceTags: (4)
    example.org/cost-center: 5113232
    example.org/security-scope: staging
  ingressClass: alb (5)
  config:
    replicas: 2 (6)
  enabledAddons: (7)
    - AWSWAFv2 (8)

1	Defines the `aws-load-balancer-controller` resource.
2	Defines the AWS Load Balancer Controller instance name. This instance name gets added as a suffix to all related resources.
3	Valid options are `Auto` and `Manual`. When the value is set to `Auto`, the Operator attempts to determine the subnets that belong to the cluster and tags them appropriately. The Operator cannot determine the role correctly if the internal subnet tags are not present on internal subnet. If you installed your cluster on user-provided infrastructure, you can manually tag the subnets with the appropriate role tags and set the subnet tagging policy to `Manual`.
4	Defines the tags used by the controller when it provisions AWS resources.
5	The default value for this field is `alb`. The Operator provisions an `IngressClass` resource with the same name if it does not exist.
6	Specifies the number of replicas of the controller.
7	Specifies add-ons for AWS load balancers, which get specified through annotations.
8	Enables the `alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/wafv2-acl-arn` annotation.

Create a aws-load-balancer-controller resource by running the following command:
```
$ oc create -f sample-aws-lb.yaml
```

After the AWS Load Balancer Controller is running, create a deployment resource:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment (1)
metadata:
  name: <echoserver> (2)
  namespace: echoserver
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: echoserver
  replicas: 3 (3)
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: echoserver
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: openshift/origin-node
          args:
            - TCP4-LISTEN:8080,reuseaddr,fork
            - EXEC:'/bin/bash -c \"printf \\\"HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n\r\n\\\"; sed -e \\\"/^\r/q\\\"\"'
          imagePullPolicy: Always
          name: echoserver
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8080

1	Defines the deployment resource.
2	Specifies the deployment name.
3	Specifies the number of replicas of the deployment.

Create a service resource:

apiVersion: v1
kind: service (1)
metadata:
  name: <echoserver> (2)
  namespace: echoserver
spec:
  ports:
    - port: 80
      targetPort: 8080
      protocol: TCP
  type: NodePort
  selector:
    app: echoserver

1	Defines the service resource.
2	Specifies the name of the service.

Deploy an ALB-backed Ingress resource:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress (1)
metadata:
  name: <echoserver> (2)
  namespace: echoserver
  annotations:
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme: internet-facing
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type: instance
spec:
  ingressClassName: alb
  rules:
    - http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Exact
            backend:
              service:
                name: <echoserver> (3)
                port:
                  number: 80

1	Defines the ingress resource.
2	Specifies the name of the ingress resource.
3	Specifies the name of the service resource.

Verification

Verify the status of the Ingress resource to show the host of the provisioned AWS Load Balancer (ALB) by running the following command:
```
$ HOST=$(kubectl get ingress -n echoserver echoserver -o json | jq -r '.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname')
```
Verify the status of the provisioned AWS Load Balancer (ALB) host by running the following command:
```
$ curl $HOST
```

Creating an instance of AWS Load Balancer Controller

Creating an instance of the AWS Load Balancer Controller using AWS Load Balancer Operator