You’ll take an EKS Ingress with an empty ADDRESS and turn it into a working internet-facing ALB, then prove it with curl, healthy targets, controller reconciliation logs, and Splunk metrics. This is the kind of failure I see in real clusters: the Kubernetes YAML can look right while IAM, Pod Identity, subnet tags, and load balancer reconciliation decide whether traffic ever reaches a pod. In this lab, the before-state is one specific case: the alb Ingress exists before the AWS Load Balancer...