Containers

Tag: load balancer

How to leverage Application Load Balancer’s advanced request routing to route application traffic across multiple Amazon EKS clusters

Introduction The AWS Load Balancer Controller is a Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) project, which enables organizations reduce their Kubernetes compute costs and the complexity of their application routing configuration. As you deploy workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), the controller simplifies exposing those applications by automating the provisioning and management and configuration […]

Implement custom service discovery for Amazon ECS Anywhere tasks

Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a managed container orchestration service offered by AWS. It simplifies the deployment, management, and scalability of containerized applications using Amazon ECS task definitions through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs). Customers who require running containerized workloads, […]

Implementing application load balancing of Amazon ECS Anywhere workloads using Traefik Proxy

Introduction With Amazon ECS Anywhere, you can run and manage containers on any customer-managed infrastructure using the same cloud-based, fully managed, and highly scalable container orchestration service you use in AWS today. Amazon ECS Anywhere provides support for registering an external instance, such as an on-premises server or virtual machine (VM), to your Amazon ECS […]

A deeper look at Ingress Sharing and Target Group Binding in AWS Load Balancer Controller

Introduction AWS Load Balancer Controller is a Kubernetes controller that integrates Application Load Balancers (ALB) and Network Load Balancers (NLB) with Kubernetes workloads. It allows you to configure and manage load balancers using Kubernetes Application Programming Interface (API). Based on our conversations with customers, we identified two AWS Load Balancer Controller features that need further […]

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Using AWS Load Balancer Controller for blue/green deployment, canary deployment and A/B testing

In the past, our customers have commonly used solutions such as Flagger, service mesh, or CI/CD to enable blue/green deployment, A/B testing, and traffic management. The AWS Load Balancer Controller (formerly known as ALB Ingress Controller) enables EKS users to realize blue/green deployments, A/B testing, and canary deployments via the Kubernetes ingress resources with the […]