[RHOCP 4] Using AWS ALB to manage OpenShift Ingress through AWS Load Balancer Operator

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Issue

  • Cluster administrators have a requirement to use an Application Load Balancer(ALB) in their AWS infrastructure to make use of Amazon security features such as Web Application Firewall (WAF) which only support ALBs and not ELBs.

  • Is it possible to use AWS ALB to manage traffic for OpenShift Ingress?

  • Is it possible to integrate AWS ALB with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to manage Ingress traffic?

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    • 4
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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