EKS - Load Balancer Health Checks

Loadbalancer health checks in EKS Todays post is about setting up load balancer health checks for a Kubernetes Cluster (EKS) within AWS. The setup consists of an Application Load Balancer, an Auto Scaling group and a target group which contains the Kubernetes worker nodes. The diagram shows a overview of the setup we aim for: flowchart TB ALB[Load Balancer]--Redirects traffic to-->ide1 asg[Autoscaling]--Considers ALB Health-Checks-->ALB subgraph ide1 [Target-Group] hs[Health-Check]--Port-30003-->n1 hs[Health-Check]--Port-30003-->n2 n1[EKS-Node-1]-->POD-echo-server-1 n2[EKS-Node-2]-->POD-echo-server-2 end The health checks configured in the target group did not work with the default configuration and reported unhealthy....

December 13, 2022