ALB Ingress: redirect traffic to HTTPS

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One of the beauties of using an ALB Ingress controller on AWS is that you can configure SSL certificates for your Ingress by just defining you want to use HTTPS

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: alb
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports: '[{"HTTP":80},{"HTTPS":443}]'

But this is going to serve the same content using HTTP and HTTPS. Configuring a SSL redirect it is also pretty straightforward but involves two steps:

22/03/2021