SSL Configuration for Kubernetes External LoadBalancer - [AWS ELB]

As we all know, enabling HTTPS to endpoints/websites is essential now-a-days. When it comes to Kubernetes, when we expose a service as LoadBalancer, the cloud provider doesn’t provide an HTTPS mechanism for the endpoint by default. If we look at the K8s setup that is deployed on AWS(For example kops), there is an actual ELB(Elastic Load Balancer) sits in front of K8s service and load balance the traffic. AWS’s ELB is not TLS enabled by default....

May 29, 2018 · 2 min · Veerendra K