Migrate apps from deprecated ALB Ingress Controller - Amazon EKS
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Migrate apps from deprecated ALB Ingress Controller

This topic describes how to migrate from deprecated controller versions. More specifically, it describes how to remove deprecated versions of the AWS Load Balancer Controller.

  • Deprecated versions cannot be upgraded. You must remove them first, and then install a current version.

  • Deprecated versions include:

    • AWS ALB Ingress Controller for Kubernetes ("Ingress Controller"), a predecessor to the AWS Load Balancer Controller.

    • Any 0.1.x version of the AWS Load Balancer Controller

Remove the deprecated controller version

Note

You may have installed the deprecated version using Helm or manually with Kubernetes manifests. Complete the procedure using the tool that you originally installed it with.

  1. If you installed the incubator/aws-alb-ingress-controller Helm chart, uninstall it.

    helm delete aws-alb-ingress-controller -n kube-system

  2. If you have version 0.1.x of the eks-charts/aws-load-balancer-controller chart installed, uninstall it. The upgrade from 0.1.x to version 1.0.0 doesn’t work due to incompatibility with the webhook API version.

    helm delete aws-load-balancer-controller -n kube-system

  3. Check to see if the controller is currently installed.

    kubectl get deployment -n kube-system alb-ingress-controller

    This is the output if the controller isn’t installed.

    Error from server (NotFound): deployments.apps "alb-ingress-controller" not found

    This is the output if the controller is installed.

    NAME                   READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
alb-ingress-controller 1/1   1          1         122d

  4. Enter the following commands to remove the controller.

    kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-alb-ingress-controller/v1.1.8/docs/examples/alb-ingress-controller.yaml
kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-alb-ingress-controller/v1.1.8/docs/examples/rbac-role.yaml

Migrate to AWS Load Balancer Controller

To migrate from the ALB Ingress Controller for Kubernetes to the AWS Load Balancer Controller, you need to:

  1. Remove the ALB Ingress Controller (see above).

  2. Install the AWS Load Balancer Controller.

  3. Add an additional policy to the IAM Role used by the AWS Load Balancer Controller. This policy permits the LBC to manage resources created by the ALB Ingress Controller for Kubernetes.

  4. Download the IAM policy. This policy permits the AWS Load Balancer Controller to manage resources created by the ALB Ingress Controller for Kubernetes. You can also view the policy.

    curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-load-balancer-controller/v2.11.0/docs/install/iam_policy_v1_to_v2_additional.json

  5. If your cluster is in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) or AWS GovCloud (US-West) AWS Regions, then replace arn:aws: with arn:aws-us-gov:.

    sed -i.bak -e 's|arn:aws:|arn:aws-us-gov:|' iam_policy_v1_to_v2_additional.json

  6. Create the IAM policy and note the ARN that is returned.

    aws iam create-policy \
  --policy-name AWSLoadBalancerControllerAdditionalIAMPolicy \
  --policy-document file://iam_policy_v1_to_v2_additional.json

  7. Attach the IAM policy to the IAM role used by the AWS Load Balancer Controller. Replace your-role-name with the name of the role, such as AmazonEKSLoadBalancerControllerRole.

    If you created the role using eksctl, then to find the role name that was created, open the AWS CloudFormation console and select the eksctl-my-cluster-addon-iamserviceaccount-kube-system-aws-load-balancer-controller stack. Select the Resources tab. The role name is in the Physical ID column.

    aws iam attach-role-policy \
  --role-name your-role-name \
  --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::111122223333:policy/AWSLoadBalancerControllerAdditionalIAMPolicy