Application load balancer in EKS without ingress controller

Question

Hi all, is it possible to create an Application load balancer and attach it to your EKS cluster without the need of an ingress controller?

Answer

If you want to use ALB and it's features, you would need the ingress controller. If a simple L4 Load Balancer meets your needs, you can use deploy Kubernetes "Service" of LoadBalancer type. It would provision a Classic Load Balancer

--Syd

Answer

Have a look at the prerequisites in the EKS documentation for [Application load balancing](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/alb-ingress.html#:~:text=Kubernetes%20version.-,Have%20the%20AWS%20Load%20Balancer%20Controller%20deployed%20on%20your%20cluster.%20For%20more%20information%2C%20see%20Installing%20the%20AWS%20Load%20Balancer%20Controller%20add%2Don.%20We%20recommend%20version%202.4.4%20or%20later.,-At%20least%20two). The AWS Load Balancer Controller must be deployed on your cluster before you can load balance application traffic to an application.

Application load balancer in EKS without ingress controller

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