Aws-load-balancer-controller: Ingress controller listen ports ValidationError

[lemonshow]

Still see listen port error with beta.5,
image: quay.io/coreos/alb-ingress-controller:1.0-beta.5

error: error validating "abc-ingress.yaml": error validating data: ValidationError(Ingress.metadata.annotations.alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports): invalid type for io.k8s.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.ObjectMeta.annotations: got "array", expected "string"; if you choose to ignore these errors, turn validation off with --validate=false

alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports: [{"HTTP": 9001}]

[bigkraig]

The value of the annotation must be in quotes. Try putting it inside of ``'s

[lemonshow]

Cool, thanks.

[etessari]

I'm currently using the image version v1.1.1, I'm deploying via helm chart and I'm always getting validation error for annotation parameter "alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports":
kubebuilder/controller "msg"="Reconciler error" "error"="listen-ports JSON structure was invalid: invalid character 'm' looking for beginning of value" "controller"="alb-ingress-controller"

If I don't insert any value I have the above error, otherwise passing custom values I still have formatting issue, some examples:
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports: '[{"HTTP": 80}]'
alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports: '{0: {"HTTP": 80}}'
I have already tried different formatting but can't figured out how to workaround the problem.

[M00nF1sh]

@etessari
Hi, the alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports: '[{"HTTP": 80}]' should worked out well. (I just tested it).

You can find examples on how to specify multiple ports: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-alb-ingress-controller/guide/ingress/annotation/#listen-ports

[etessari]

@M00nF1sh thanks for the reply.
For me assigning service type "nodePort" seems to solve the issue, but with type "LoadBalancer" I still get the formatting issue.

[M00nF1sh]

umm, the type on service shouldn't matter in this case(i.e. shouldn't cause the formatting error).

The default controller yaml config don't output success information(which might confuse you with out-dated error message), would you help adding an "-v=1" argument to the controller yaml(similar to --ingress-class=alb but with single -). So that whenever the controller sucessfully provision & configured ALB for you, you'll see an "successfully reconciled" message.

[jrsalgado]

You can pass the array as text like this too

annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: alb
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports: |
      [{"HTTP": 80}, {"HTTPS": 443}, {"HTTP": 8080}, {"HTTPS": 8443}]