AWS has rebranded the Application Load Balancer (ALB) Ingress controller as the AWS Load Balancer Controller and now includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The public vendor recently announced the renaming and updates to this Load Balancer controller, labeled as a new controller or AWS ALB Ingress Controller v2.

There is an existing AWS Application Load balancer Ingress Controller (v1) that has been available for a few years, which manages ingress resources with application load balancers. The new AWS Load Balancer Controller is more generic and does application load balancing and network load balancing. Moreover, AWS also added new functionality and features to the new Load Balancer controller, such as:

• Network Load Balancers (NLB) for Kubernetes services
• Ability to share ALBs with multiple Kubernetes ingress rules
• A new TargetGroupBinding

One of the new controller’s benefits is that it allows users to create NLBs for their Fargate pods with a simple annotation on the service.

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