AWS NLB

Why does my NLB sometimes refuse connections when ingress-nginx scales down?

An AWS NLB fronts ingress-nginx in instance mode with externalTrafficPolicy set to Local. Intermittent ECONNREFUSED errors seem to coincide with ingress pods scaling down or restarting. What should…

Why does an AWS NLB return ECONNREFUSED when ingress-nginx pods scale down?

We're seeing intermittent ECONNREFUSED errors when connecting to an AWS Network Load Balancer in front of ingress-nginx. The NLB uses instance mode, and the service is configured with…