Can Traefik be used in AWS EKS Auto Mode clusters?

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My understanding of AWS EKS Auto Mode is that it only supports the ALB as the ingress controller; is that correct?

Is there a way (or a workaround) to use Traefik for proxying external requests to an EKS cluster in Auto Mode?

If not, would it be possible (and not crazy) to run Traefix as a second level proxy (i.e. as a plain kubernetes Service) behind the ALB ingress to take advantage of all of Traefik's goodness?

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We are also looking to use traefik since the aws application load balancer controller in EKS auto mode doesn’t support the OIDC auth type (yet).

It’s indeed possible to run traefik as a second level proxy behind the ALB and doesn’t feel crazy to me :slight_smile:

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