Ingress annotations¶

You can add annotations to kubernetes Ingress and Service objects to customize their behavior.

Annotation keys and values can only be strings. Advanced format should be encoded as below:
- boolean: 'true'
- integer: '42'
- stringList: s1,s2,s3
- stringMap: k1=v1,k2=v2
- json: 'jsonContent'
Annotations applied to Service have higher priority over annotations applied to Ingress. Location column below indicates where that annotation can be applied to.
Annotations that configures LoadBalancer / Listener behaviors have different merge behavior when IngressGroup feature is been used. MergeBehavior column below indicates how such annotation will be merged.
- Exclusive: such annotation should only be specified on a single Ingress within IngressGroup or specified with same value across all Ingresses within IngressGroup.
- Merge: such annotation can be specified on all Ingresses within IngressGroup, and will be merged together.

Annotations¶

Name	Type	Default	Location	MergeBehavior
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/group.name	string	N/A	Ingress	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/group.order	integer	0	Ingress	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/tags	stringMap	N/A	Ingress,Service	Merge
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/ip-address-type	ipv4 \| dualstack	ipv4	Ingress	Exclusive
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme	internal \| internet-facing	internal	Ingress	Exclusive
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/subnets	stringList	N/A	Ingress	Exclusive
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/security-groups	stringList	N/A	Ingress	Exclusive
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/load-balancer-attributes	stringMap	N/A	Ingress	Merge
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/wafv2-acl-arn	string	N/A	Ingress	Exclusive
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/waf-acl-id	string	N/A	Ingress	Exclusive
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/shield-advanced-protection	boolean	N/A	Ingress	Exclusive
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports	json	'[{"HTTP": 80}]' \| '[{"HTTPS": 443}]'	Ingress	Merge
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/inbound-cidrs	stringList	0.0.0.0/0, ::/0	Ingress	Exclusive
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/certificate-arn	stringList	N/A	Ingress	Merge
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-policy	string	ELBSecurityPolicy-2016-08	Ingress	Exclusive
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type	instance \| ip	instance	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol	HTTP \| HTTPS	HTTP	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-group-attributes	stringMap	N/A	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-port	integer \| traffic-port	traffic-port	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-protocol	HTTP \| HTTPS	HTTP	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-path	string	/	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-interval-seconds	integer	'15'	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-timeout-seconds	integer	'5'	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthy-threshold-count	integer	'2'	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/unhealthy-threshold-count	integer	'2'	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/success-codes	string	'200'	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type	none\|oidc\|cognito	none	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-idp-cognito	json	N/A	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-idp-oidc	json	N/A	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-on-unauthenticated-request	authenticate\|allow\|deny	authenticate	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-scope	string	openid	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-session-cookie	string	AWSELBAuthSessionCookie	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-session-timeout	integer	'604800'	Ingress,Service	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.${action-name}	json	N/A	Ingress	N/A
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/conditions.${conditions-name}	json	N/A	Ingress	N/A

IngressGroup¶

IngressGroup feature enables you to group multiple Ingress resources together. The controller will automatically merge Ingress rules for all Ingresses within IngressGroup and support them with a single ALB. In addition, most annotations defined on a Ingress only applies to the paths defined by that Ingress.

By default, Ingresses don't belong to any IngressGroup, and we treat it as a "implicit IngressGroup" consisted of the Ingress itself.

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/group.name specifies the group name that this Ingress belongs to.
- Ingresses with same group.name annotation will form as a "explicit IngressGroup".
- groupName must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters, - or ., and must start and end with an alphanumeric character.
- groupName must be no more than 63 character.
Security Risk

IngressGroup feature should only be used when all Kubernetes users with RBAC permission to create/modify Ingress resources are within trust boundary.

If you turn your Ingress to belong a "explicit IngressGroup" by adding group.name annotation, other Kubernetes user may create/modify their Ingresses to belong same IngressGroup, thus can add more rules or overwrite existing rules with higher priority to the ALB for your Ingress.

We'll add more fine-grained access-control in future versions.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/group.name: my-team.awesome-group
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/group.order specifies the order across all Ingresses within IngressGroup.
- You can explicitly denote the order using a number between 1-1000
- The smaller the order, the rule will be evaluated first. All Ingresses without explicit order setting get order value as 0
- By default the rule order between Ingresses within IngressGroup are determined by the lexical order of Ingress’s namespace/name.
You may not have duplicate group order explicitly defined for Ingresses within IngressGroup.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/group.order: '10'
```

Traffic Listening¶

Traffic Listening can be controlled with following annotations:

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports specifies the ports that ALB used to listen on.
Merge Behavior

listen-ports is merged across all Ingresses in IngressGroup.
- You can define different listen-ports per Ingress, Ingress rules will only impact the ports defined for that Ingress.
- If same listen-port is defined by multiple Ingress within IngressGroup, Ingress rules will be merged with respect to their group order within IngressGroup.
Default
- defaults to '[{"HTTP": 80}]' or '[{"HTTPS": 443}]' depends on whether certificate-arn is specified.
You may not have duplicate load balancer ports defined.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports: '[{"HTTP": 80}, {"HTTPS": 443}, {"HTTP": 8080}, {"HTTPS": 8443}]'
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/ip-address-type specifies the IP address type of ALB.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/ip-address-type: ipv4
```

Traffic Routing¶

Traffic Routing can be controlled with following annotations:

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type specifies how to route traffic to pods. You can choose between instance and ip:
- instance mode will route traffic to all ec2 instances within cluster on NodePort opened for your service.
  
  service must be of type "NodePort" or "LoadBalancer" to use instance mode
- ip mode will route traffic directly to the pod IP.
  network plugin must use secondary IP addresses on ENI for pod IP to use ip mode. e.g.
  - amazon-vpc-cni-k8s
  ip mode is required for sticky sessions to work with Application Load Balancers.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type: instance
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol specifies the protocol used when route traffic to pods.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: HTTPS
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/subnets specifies the Availability Zone that ALB will route traffic to. See Load Balancer subnets for more details.

You must specify at least two subnets in different AZ. both subnetID or subnetName(Name tag on subnets) can be used.

Tip

You can enable subnet auto discovery to avoid specify this annotation on every Ingress. See Subnet Discovery for instructions.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/subnets: subnet-xxxx, mySubnet
```

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.${action-name} Provides a method for configuring custom actions on a listener, such as Redirect Actions.

The action-name in the annotation must match the serviceName in the Ingress rules, and servicePort must be use-annotation.

use ARN in forward Action

ARN can be used in forward action(both simplified schema and advanced schema), it must be an targetGroup created outside of k8s, typically an targetGroup for legacy application.

use ServiceName/ServicePort in forward Action

ServiceName/ServicePort can be used in forward action(advanced schema only).

Auth related annotations on Service object will only be respected if a single TargetGroup in is used.

Example

response-503: return fixed 503 response
redirect-to-eks: redirect to an external url
forward-single-tg: forward to an single targetGroup [simplified schema]
forward-multiple-tg: forward to multiple targetGroups with different weights and stickiness config [advanced schema]

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  namespace: default
  name: ingress
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: alb
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme: internet-facing
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.response-503: >
      {"type":"fixed-response","fixedResponseConfig":{"contentType":"text/plain","statusCode":"503","messageBody":"503 error text"}}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.redirect-to-eks: >
      {"type":"redirect","redirectConfig":{"host":"aws.amazon.com","path":"/eks/","port":"443","protocol":"HTTPS","query":"k=v","statusCode":"HTTP_302"}}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.forward-single-tg: >
      {"type":"forward","targetGroupARN": "arn-of-your-target-group"}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.forward-multiple-tg: >
      {"type":"forward","forwardConfig":{"targetGroups":[{"serviceName":"service-1","servicePort":"http","weight":20},{"serviceName":"service-2","servicePort":80,"weight":20},{"targetGroupARN":"arn-of-your-non-k8s-target-group","weight":60}],"targetGroupStickinessConfig":{"enabled":true,"durationSeconds":200}}}
spec:
  rules:
    - http:
        paths:
          - path: /503
            backend:
              serviceName: response-503
              servicePort: use-annotation
          - path: /eks
            backend:
              serviceName: redirect-to-eks
              servicePort: use-annotation
          - path: /path1
            backend:
              serviceName: forward-single-tg
              servicePort: use-annotation
          - path: /path2
            backend:
              serviceName: forward-multiple-tg
              servicePort: use-annotation

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/conditions.${conditions-name} Provides a method for specifying routing conditions in addition to original host/path condition on Ingress spec.

The conditions-name in the annotation must match the serviceName in the Ingress rules. It can be a either real serviceName or an annotation based action name when servicePort is use-annotation.

limitations

General ALB limitations applies:

Each rule can optionally include up to one of each of the following conditions: host-header, http-request-method, path-pattern, and source-ip. Each rule can also optionally include one or more of each of the following conditions: http-header and query-string.
You can specify up to three match evaluations per condition.
You can specify up to five match evaluations per rule.

Refer ALB documentation for more details.

Example

rule-path1:
- Host is www.example.com OR anno.example.com
- Path is /path1
rule-path2:
- Host is www.example.com
- Path is /path2 OR /anno/path2
rule-path3:
- Host is www.example.com
- Path is /path3
- Http header HeaderName is HeaderValue1 OR HeaderValue2
rule-path4:
- Host is www.example.com
- Path is /path4
- Http request method is GET OR HEAD
rule-path5:
- Host is www.example.com
- Path is /path5
- Query string is paramA:valueA1 OR paramA:valueA2
rule-path6:
- Host is www.example.com
- Path is /path6
- Source IP is192.168.0.0/16 OR 172.16.0.0/16
rule-path7:
- Host is www.example.com
- Path is /path6
- Http header HeaderName is HeaderValue
- Query string is paramA:valueA
- Query string is paramB:valueB

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  namespace: default
  name: ingress
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: alb
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme: internet-facing
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.rule-path1: >
      {"type":"fixed-response","fixedResponseConfig":{"contentType":"text/plain","statusCode":"200","messageBody":"Host is www.example.com OR anno.example.com"}}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/conditions.rule-path1: >
      [{"field":"host-header","hostHeaderConfig":{"values":["anno.example.com"]}}]
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.rule-path2: >
      {"type":"fixed-response","fixedResponseConfig":{"contentType":"text/plain","statusCode":"200","messageBody":"Path is /path2 OR /anno/path2"}}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/conditions.rule-path2: >
      [{"field":"path-pattern","pathPatternConfig":{"values":["/anno/path2"]}}]
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.rule-path3: >
      {"type":"fixed-response","fixedResponseConfig":{"contentType":"text/plain","statusCode":"200","messageBody":"Http header HeaderName is HeaderValue1 OR HeaderValue2"}}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/conditions.rule-path3: >
      [{"field":"http-header","httpHeaderConfig":{"httpHeaderName": "HeaderName", "values":["HeaderValue1", "HeaderValue2"]}}]
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.rule-path4: >
      {"type":"fixed-response","fixedResponseConfig":{"contentType":"text/plain","statusCode":"200","messageBody":"Http request method is GET OR HEAD"}}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/conditions.rule-path4: >
      [{"field":"http-request-method","httpRequestMethodConfig":{"Values":["GET", "HEAD"]}}]
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.rule-path5: >
      {"type":"fixed-response","fixedResponseConfig":{"contentType":"text/plain","statusCode":"200","messageBody":"Query string is paramA:valueA1 OR paramA:valueA2"}}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/conditions.rule-path5: >
      [{"field":"query-string","queryStringConfig":{"values":[{"key":"paramA","value":"valueA1"},{"key":"paramA","value":"valueA2"}]}}]
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.rule-path6: >
      {"type":"fixed-response","fixedResponseConfig":{"contentType":"text/plain","statusCode":"200","messageBody":"Source IP is 192.168.0.0/16 OR 172.16.0.0/16"}}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/conditions.rule-path6: >
      [{"field":"source-ip","sourceIpConfig":{"values":["192.168.0.0/16", "172.16.0.0/16"]}}]
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.rule-path7: >
      {"type":"fixed-response","fixedResponseConfig":{"contentType":"text/plain","statusCode":"200","messageBody":"multiple conditions applies"}}
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/conditions.rule-path7: >
      [{"field":"http-header","httpHeaderConfig":{"httpHeaderName": "HeaderName", "values":["HeaderValue"]}},{"field":"query-string","queryStringConfig":{"values":[{"key":"paramA","value":"valueA"}]}},{"field":"query-string","queryStringConfig":{"values":[{"key":"paramB","value":"valueB"}]}}]
spec:
  rules:
    - host: www.example.com
      http:
        paths:
          - path: /path1
            backend:
              serviceName: rule-path1
              servicePort: use-annotation
          - path: /path2
            backend:
              serviceName: rule-path2
              servicePort: use-annotation
          - path: /path3
            backend:
              serviceName: rule-path3
              servicePort: use-annotation
          - path: /path4
            backend:
              serviceName: rule-path4
              servicePort: use-annotation
          - path: /path5
            backend:
              serviceName: rule-path5
              servicePort: use-annotation
          - path: /path6
            backend:
              serviceName: rule-path6
              servicePort: use-annotation
          - path: /path7
            backend:
              serviceName: rule-path7
              servicePort: use-annotation

Access control¶

Access control for LoadBalancer can be controlled with following annotations:

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme specifies whether your LoadBalancer will be internet facing. See Load balancer scheme in the AWS documentation for more details.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme: internal
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/inbound-cidrs specifies the CIDRs that are allowed to access LoadBalancer.
Merge Behavior

inbound-cidrs is merged across all Ingresses in IngressGroup, but is exclusive per listen-port.
- the inbound-cidrs will only impact the ports defined for that Ingress.
- if same listen-port is defined by multiple Ingress within IngressGroup, inbound-cidrs should only be defined on one of the Ingress.
Default
- 0.0.0.0/0 will be used if the IPAddressType is "ipv4"
- 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0 will be used if the IPAddressType is "dualstack"
this annotation will be ignored if alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/security-groups is specified.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/inbound-cidrs: 10.0.0.0/24
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/security-groups specifies the securityGroups you want to attach to LoadBalancer.

When this annotation is not present, the controller will automatically create one security groups: the security group will be attached to the LoadBalancer and allow access from inbound-cidrs to the listen-ports. Also, the securityGroups for Node/Pod will be modified to allow inbound traffic from this securityGroup.

Both name or ID of securityGroups are supported. Name matches a Name tag, not the groupName attribute.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/security-groups: sg-xxxx, nameOfSg1, nameOfSg2
```

Authentication¶

ALB supports authentication with Cognito or OIDC. See Authenticate Users Using an Application Load Balancer for more details.

HTTPS only

Authentication is only supported for HTTPS listeners, see SSL for configure HTTPS listener.

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type specifies the authentication type on targets.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: cognito
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-idp-cognito specifies the cognito idp configuration.

If you are using Amazon Cognito Domain, the userPoolDomain should be set to the domain prefix(my-domain) instead of full domain(https://my-domain.auth.us-west-2.amazoncognito.com)
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-idp-cognito: '{"userPoolARN":"arn:aws:cognito-idp:us-west-2:xxx:userpool/xxx","userPoolClientID":"my-clientID","userPoolDomain":"my-domain"}'
```

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-idp-oidc specifies the oidc idp configuration.

You need to create an secret within the same namespace as Ingress to hold your OIDC clientID and clientSecret. The format of secret is as below:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  namespace: testcase
  name: my-k8s-secret
data:
  clientID: base64 of your plain text clientId
  clientSecret: base64 of your plain text clientSecret

Example

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-idp-oidc: '{"issuer":"https://example.com","authorizationEndpoint":"https://authorization.example.com","tokenEndpoint":"https://token.example.com","userInfoEndpoint":"https://userinfo.example.com","secretName":"my-k8s-secret"}'

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-on-unauthenticated-request specifies the behavior if the user is not authenticated.
options:
- authenticate: try authenticate with configured IDP.
- deny: return an HTTP 401 Unauthorized error.
- allow: allow the request to be forwarded to the target.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-on-unauthenticated-request: authenticate
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-scope specifies the set of user claims to be requested from the IDP(cognito or oidc), in a space-separated list.
options:
- phone
- email
- profile
- openid
- aws.cognito.signin.user.admin
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-scope: 'email openid'
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-session-cookie specifies the name of the cookie used to maintain session information
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-session-cookie: custom-cookie
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-session-timeout specifies the maximum duration of the authentication session, in seconds
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-session-timeout: '86400'
```

Health Check¶

Health check on target groups can be controlled with following annotations:

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-protocol specifies the protocol used when performing health check on targets.

Example

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-protocol: HTTPS
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-port specifies the port used when performing health check on targets.

When using target-type: instance with a service of type "NodePort", the healthcheck port can be set to traffic-port to automatically point to the correct port.
Example
- set the healthcheck port to the traffic port
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-port: traffic-port
```
- set the healthcheck port to the NodePort(when target-type=instance) or TargetPort(when target-type=ip) of a named port
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-port: my-port
```
- set the healthcheck port to 80/tcp
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-port: '80'
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-path specifies the HTTP path when performing health check on targets.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-path: /ping
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-interval-seconds specifies the interval(in seconds) between health check of an individual target.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-interval-seconds: '10'
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-timeout-seconds specifies the timeout(in seconds) during which no response from a target means a failed health check
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-timeout-seconds: '8'
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/success-codes specifies the HTTP status code that should be expected when doing health checks against the specified health check path.
Example
- use single value
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/success-codes: '200'
```
- use multiple values
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/success-codes: 200,201
```
- use range of value
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/success-codes: 200-300
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthy-threshold-count specifies the consecutive health checks successes required before considering an unhealthy target healthy.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthy-threshold-count: '2'
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/unhealthy-threshold-count specifies the consecutive health check failures required before considering a target unhealthy.

Example

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/unhealthy-threshold-count: '2'

SSL¶

SSL support can be controlled with following annotations:

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/certificate-arn specifies the ARN of one or more certificate managed by AWS Certificate Manager

The first certificate in the list will be added as default certificate. And remaining certificate will be added to the optional certificate list. See SSL Certificates for more details.

Certificate Discovery

TLS certificates for ALB Listeners can be automatically discovered with hostnames from Ingress resources. See Certificate Discovery for instructions.
Example
- single certificate
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/certificate-arn: arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:xxxxx:certificate/xxxxxxx
```
- multiple certificates
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/certificate-arn: arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:xxxxx:certificate/cert1,arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:xxxxx:certificate/cert2,arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:xxxxx:certificate/cert3
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-policy specifies the Security Policy that should be assigned to the ALB, allowing you to control the protocol and ciphers.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-policy: ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-1-2017-01
```

Custom attributes¶

Custom attributes to LoadBalancers and TargetGroups can be controlled with following annotations:

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/load-balancer-attributes specifies Load Balancer Attributes that should be applied to the ALB.

Example

enable access log to s3

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/load-balancer-attributes: access_logs.s3.enabled=true,access_logs.s3.bucket=my-access-log-bucket,access_logs.s3.prefix=my-app

enable deletion protection

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/load-balancer-attributes: deletion_protection.enabled=true

enable invalid header fields removal

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/load-balancer-attributes: routing.http.drop_invalid_header_fields.enabled=true

enable http2 support

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/load-balancer-attributes: routing.http2.enabled=true

set idle_timeout delay to 600 seconds

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/load-balancer-attributes: idle_timeout.timeout_seconds=600

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-group-attributes specifies Target Group Attributes which should be applied to Target Groups.

Example

set the slow start duration to 30 seconds (available range is 30-900 seconds)

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-group-attributes: slow_start.duration_seconds=30

set the deregistration delay to 30 seconds (available range is 0-3600 seconds)

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-group-attributes: deregistration_delay.timeout_seconds=30

enable sticky sessions (requires alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type be set to ip)

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-group-attributes: stickiness.enabled=true,stickiness.lb_cookie.duration_seconds=60
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type: ip

set load balancing algorithm to least outstanding requests

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-group-attributes: load_balancing.algorithm.type=least_outstanding_requests

Resource Tags¶

AWS Load Balancer Controller will automatically apply following tags to AWS resources(ALB/TargetGroups/SecurityGroups) created.

ingress.k8s.aws/cluster: ${clusterName}
ingress.k8s.aws/stack: ${stackID}
ingress.k8s.aws/resource: ${resourceID}

In addition, you can use annotations to specify additional tags

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/tags specifies additional tags that will be applied to AWS resources created.
Example
```
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/tags: Environment=dev,Team=test
```

Addons¶

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/waf-acl-id specifies the identifier for the Amzon WAF web ACL.

Only Regional WAF is supported.

Example

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/waf-acl-id: 499e8b99-6671-4614-a86d-adb1810b7fbe
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/wafv2-acl-arn specifies ARN for the Amazon WAFv2 web ACL.

Only Regional WAFv2 is supported.

To get the WAFv2 Web ACL ARN from the Console, click the gear icon in the upper right and enable the ARN column.

Example

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/wafv2-acl-arn: arn:aws:wafv2:us-west-2:xxxxx:regional/webacl/xxxxxxx/3ab78708-85b0-49d3-b4e1-7a9615a6613b
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/shield-advanced-protection turns on / off the AWS Shield Advanced protection for the load balancer.

Example

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/shield-advanced-protection: 'true'