title: Use aws-load-balancer to redirect to 301 - or do I need an ingress-controller
body: <p>Frankly am not quite sure of the difference between an EKS Service and an IngressController. I have this service:</p>
  
  <pre><code>apiVersion: v1
  kind: Service
  metadata:
    namespace: entity-tools-integration
    annotations:
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-cert: arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:913xxx371:certificate/d98d8d07
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol: http
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-ports: "443"
    labels:
      app: entity-tools-integration
    name: entity-tools-integration
  spec:
    type: LoadBalancer
    ports:
      - name: http
        protocol: TCP
        port: 80
        targetPort: 80
      - name: https
        protocol: TCP
        port: 443
        targetPort: 80
    selector:
      app: entity-tools-integration
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I just want to redirect http traffic on port 80 to https on 443 - my question - is there way to configure my <em>service</em> to do that, or do I need an ingress-controller? for an ingress controller (which I would like to avoid if possible) the relevant config is something like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-alb-ingress-controller/guide/tasks/ssl_redirect/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-alb-ingress-controller/guide/tasks/ssl_redirect/</a></p>