A typical ingress with TLS configuration is like below:

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: no-rules-map spec: tls: - secretName: testsecret backend: serviceName: s1 servicePort: 80

By default, the load balancer will talk to backend service in HTTP. Can I configure Ingress so that the communication between load balancer and the backend service is also HTTPS?

Update:

Found GLBC talking about enabling HTTPS backend for GCE Ingress. Excerpt from the document:

"Backend HTTPS

For encrypted communication between the load balancer and your Kubernetes service, you need to decorate the service's port as expecting HTTPS. There's an alpha Service annotation for specifying the expected protocol per service port. Upon seeing the protocol as HTTPS, the ingress controller will assemble a GCP L7 load balancer with an HTTPS backend-service with a HTTPS health check."

It is not clear if the load balancer accepts 3rd party signed server certificate, self-signed, or both. How CA cert should be configured on load balancer to do backend server authentication. Or it will bypass authentication check.