diff --git a/cli/internal/helm/BUILD.bazel b/cli/internal/helm/BUILD.bazel
index c568bbf18..000796570 100644
--- a/cli/internal/helm/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/cli/internal/helm/BUILD.bazel
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ go_library(
         "helm.go",
         "installer.go",
         "loader.go",
+        "symwalk.go",
         "values.go",
     ],
     embedsrcs = [
@@ -397,6 +398,8 @@ go_library(
         "charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/templates/servicemonitor.yaml",
         "charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/templates/webhook.yaml",
         "charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/values.yaml",
+        "charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/crds/kustomization.yaml",
+        "charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/test.yaml",
     ],
     importpath = "github.com/edgelesssys/constellation/v2/cli/internal/helm",
     visibility = ["//cli:__subpackages__"],
diff --git a/cli/internal/helm/charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/crds/kustomization.yaml b/cli/internal/helm/charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/crds/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3f1d1cbba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/internal/helm/charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/crds/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+- crds.yaml
diff --git a/cli/internal/helm/charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/test.yaml b/cli/internal/helm/charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/test.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3c4a90754
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/internal/helm/charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/test.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,326 @@
+# Default values for aws-load-balancer-controller.
+# This is a YAML-formatted file.
+# Declare variables to be passed into your templates.
+
+replicaCount: 2
+
+image:
+  repository: public.ecr.aws/eks/aws-load-balancer-controller
+  tag: v2.5.3
+  pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+
+imagePullSecrets: []
+nameOverride: ""
+fullnameOverride: ""
+
+serviceAccount:
+  # Specifies whether a service account should be created
+  create: true
+  # Annotations to add to the service account
+  annotations: {}
+  # The name of the service account to use.
+  # If not set and create is true, a name is generated using the fullname template
+  name:
+  # Automount API credentials for a Service Account.
+  automountServiceAccountToken: true
+  # List of image pull secrets to add to the Service Account.
+  imagePullSecrets:
+  # - name: docker
+
+rbac:
+  # Specifies whether rbac resources should be created
+  create: true
+
+podSecurityContext:
+  fsGroup: 65534
+
+securityContext:
+  # capabilities:
+  #   drop:
+  #   - ALL
+  readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
+  runAsNonRoot: true
+  allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+
+# Time period for the controller pod to do a graceful shutdown
+terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
+
+resources:
+  limits:
+    cpu: 100m
+    memory: 128Mi
+  requests:
+    cpu: 100m
+    memory: 128Mi
+
+# priorityClassName specifies the PriorityClass to indicate the importance of controller pods
+# ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/#priorityclass
+priorityClassName: system-cluster-critical
+
+nodeSelector: {}
+
+tolerations: []
+
+# affinity specifies a custom affinity for the controller pods
+affinity: {}
+
+# configureDefaultAffinity specifies whether to configure a default affinity for the controller pods to prevent
+# co-location on the same node. This will get ignored if you specify a custom affinity configuration.
+configureDefaultAffinity: true
+
+# topologySpreadConstraints is a stable feature of k8s v1.19 which provides the ability to
+# control how Pods are spread across your cluster among failure-domains such as regions, zones,
+# nodes, and other user-defined topology domains.
+#
+# more details here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-topology-spread-constraints/
+topologySpreadConstraints: {}
+
+updateStrategy:
+  type: RollingUpdate
+  rollingUpdate:
+    maxSurge: 1
+    maxUnavailable: 1
+
+# serviceAnnotations contains annotations to be added to the provisioned webhook service resource
+serviceAnnotations: {}
+
+# deploymentAnnotations contains annotations for the controller deployment
+deploymentAnnotations: {}
+
+podAnnotations: {}
+
+podLabels: {}
+
+# additionalLabels -- Labels to add to each object of the chart.
+additionalLabels: {}
+
+# Enable cert-manager
+enableCertManager: false
+
+# The name of the Kubernetes cluster. A non-empty value is required
+clusterName: test-cluster
+
+# cluster contains configurations specific to the kubernetes cluster
+cluster:
+  # Cluster DNS domain (required for requesting TLS certificates)
+  dnsDomain: cluster.local
+
+# The ingress class this controller will satisfy. If not specified, controller will match all
+# ingresses without ingress class annotation and ingresses of type alb
+ingressClass: alb
+
+# ingressClassParams specify the IngressCLassParams that enforce settings for a set of Ingresses when using with ingress Controller.
+ingressClassParams:
+  create: true
+  # The name of ingressClassParams resource will be referred in ingressClass
+  name:
+  spec: {}
+    # You always can set specifications in `helm install` command through `--set` or `--set-string`
+    # If you do want to specify specifications in values.yaml, uncomment the following
+    # lines, adjust them as necessary, and remove the curly braces after 'spec:'.
+    # namespaceSelector:
+    #   matchLabels:
+    # group:
+    # scheme:
+    # ipAddressType:
+  # tags:
+
+# To use IngressClass resource instead of annotation, before you need to install the IngressClass resource pointing to controller.
+# If specified as true, the IngressClass resource will be created.
+createIngressClassResource: true
+
+# The AWS region for the kubernetes cluster. Set to use KIAM or kube2iam for example.
+region:
+
+# The VPC ID for the Kubernetes cluster. Set this manually when your pods are unable to use the metadata service to determine this automatically
+vpcId:
+
+# Custom AWS API Endpoints (serviceID1=URL1,serviceID2=URL2)
+awsApiEndpoints:
+
+# awsApiThrottle specifies custom AWS API throttle settings (serviceID1:operationRegex1=rate:burst,serviceID2:operationRegex2=rate:burst)
+# example: --set awsApiThrottle="{Elastic Load Balancing v2:RegisterTargets|DeregisterTargets=4:20,Elastic Load Balancing v2:.*=10:40}"
+awsApiThrottle:
+
+# Maximum retries for AWS APIs (default 10)
+awsMaxRetries:
+
+
+
+
+# If enabled, targetHealth readiness gate will get injected to the pod spec for the matching endpoint pods (default true)
+enablePodReadinessGateInject:
+
+# Enable Shield addon for ALB (default true)
+enableShield:
+
+# Enable WAF addon for ALB (default true)
+enableWaf:
+
+# Enable WAF V2 addon for ALB (default true)
+enableWafv2:
+
+# Maximum number of concurrently running reconcile loops for ingress (default 3)
+ingressMaxConcurrentReconciles:
+
+# Set the controller log level - info(default), debug (default "info")
+logLevel:
+
+# The address the metric endpoint binds to. (default ":8080")
+metricsBindAddr: ""
+
+# The TCP port the Webhook server binds to. (default 9443)
+webhookBindPort:
+
+# webhookTLS specifies TLS cert/key for the webhook
+webhookTLS:
+  caCert:
+  cert:
+  key:
+
+# array of namespace selectors for the webhook
+webhookNamespaceSelectors:
+  - key: elbv2.k8s.aws/pod-readiness-gate-inject
+    operator: In
+    values:
+      - enabled
+
+# keepTLSSecret specifies whether to reuse existing TLS secret for chart upgrade
+keepTLSSecret: true
+
+# Maximum number of concurrently running reconcile loops for service (default 3)
+serviceMaxConcurrentReconciles:
+
+# Maximum number of concurrently running reconcile loops for targetGroupBinding
+targetgroupbindingMaxConcurrentReconciles:
+
+# Maximum duration of exponential backoff for targetGroupBinding reconcile failures
+targetgroupbindingMaxExponentialBackoffDelay:
+
+# Period at which the controller forces the repopulation of its local object stores. (default 1h0m0s)
+syncPeriod:
+
+# Namespace the controller watches for updates to Kubernetes objects, If empty, all namespaces are watched.
+watchNamespace:
+
+# disableIngressClassAnnotation disables the usage of kubernetes.io/ingress.class annotation, false by default
+disableIngressClassAnnotation:
+
+# disableIngressGroupNameAnnotation disables the usage of alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/group.name annotation, false by default
+disableIngressGroupNameAnnotation:
+
+# defaultSSLPolicy specifies the default SSL policy to use for TLS/HTTPS listeners
+defaultSSLPolicy:
+
+# Liveness probe configuration for the controller
+livenessProbe:
+  failureThreshold: 2
+  httpGet:
+    path: /healthz
+    port: 61779
+    scheme: HTTP
+  initialDelaySeconds: 30
+  timeoutSeconds: 10
+
+# Environment variables to set for aws-load-balancer-controller pod.
+# We strongly discourage programming access credentials in the controller environment. You should setup IRSA or
+# comparable solutions like kube2iam, kiam etc instead.
+env:
+# ENV_1: ""
+# ENV_2: ""
+
+# Specifies if aws-load-balancer-controller should be started in hostNetwork mode.
+#
+# This is required if using a custom CNI where the managed control plane nodes are unable to initiate
+# network connections to the pods, for example using Calico CNI plugin on EKS. This is not required or
+# recommended if using the Amazon VPC CNI plugin.
+hostNetwork: false
+
+# Specifies the dnsPolicy that should be used for pods in the deployment
+#
+# This may need to be used to be changed given certain conditions. For instance, if one uses the cilium CNI
+# with certain settings, one may need to set `hostNetwork: true` and webhooks won't work unless `dnsPolicy`
+# is set to `ClusterFirstWithHostNet`. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/#pod-s-dns-policy
+dnsPolicy:
+
+# extraVolumeMounts are the additional volume mounts. This enables setting up IRSA on non-EKS Kubernetes cluster
+extraVolumeMounts:
+  - name: aws-iam-token
+    mountPath: /var/run/secrets/eks.amazonaws.com/serviceaccount
+    readOnly: true
+
+# extraVolumes for the extraVolumeMounts. Useful to mount a projected service account token for example.
+extraVolumes:
+  - name: aws-iam-token
+    projected:
+      defaultMode: 420
+      sources:
+        - serviceAccountToken:
+            audience: sts.amazonaws.com
+            expirationSeconds: 86400
+            path: token
+
+# defaultTags are the tags to apply to all AWS resources managed by this controller
+defaultTags:
+  default_tag1: value1
+  default_tag2: value2
+
+# podDisruptionBudget specifies the disruption budget for the controller pods.
+# Disruption budget will be configured only when the replicaCount is greater than 1
+podDisruptionBudget:
+  maxUnavailable: 1
+
+# externalManagedTags is the list of tag keys on AWS resources that will be managed externally
+externalManagedTags: []
+
+# enableEndpointSlices enables k8s EndpointSlices for IP targets instead of Endpoints (default false)
+enableEndpointSlices:
+
+# enableBackendSecurityGroup enables shared security group for backend traffic (default true)
+enableBackendSecurityGroup:
+
+# backendSecurityGroup specifies backend security group id (default controller auto create backend security group)
+backendSecurityGroup:
+
+# disableRestrictedSecurityGroupRules specifies whether to disable creating port-range restricted security group rules for traffic
+disableRestrictedSecurityGroupRules:
+
+# controllerConfig specifies controller configuration
+controllerConfig:
+  # featureGates set of key: value pairs that describe AWS load balance controller features
+  featureGates: {}
+  #  ServiceTypeLoadBalancerOnly: true
+  #  EndpointsFailOpen: true
+
+# objectSelector for webhook
+objectSelector:
+  matchExpressions:
+  # - key: <key>
+  #   operator: <operator>
+  #   values:
+  #   - <value>
+  matchLabels:
+  #   key: value
+
+serviceMonitor:
+  # Specifies whether a service monitor should be created
+  enabled: false
+  # Labels to add to the service account
+  additionalLabels: {}
+  # Prometheus scrape interval
+  interval: 1m
+  # Namespace to create the service monitor in
+  namespace:
+
+# clusterSecretsPermissions lets you configure RBAC permissions for secret resources
+# Access to secrets resource is required only if you use the OIDC feature, and instead of
+# enabling access to all secrets, we recommend configuring namespaced role/rolebinding.
+# This option is for backwards compatibility only, and will potentially be deprecated in future.
+clusterSecretsPermissions:
+  # allowAllSecrets allows the controller to access all secrets in the cluster.
+  # This is to get backwards compatible behavior, but *NOT* recommended for security reasons
+  allowAllSecrets: false
+
+# ingressClassConfig contains configurations specific to the ingress class
+ingressClassConfig:
+  default: false
diff --git a/cli/internal/helm/loader.go b/cli/internal/helm/loader.go
index ebe3c5540..e14ec5233 100644
--- a/cli/internal/helm/loader.go
+++ b/cli/internal/helm/loader.go
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ import (
 	"encoding/base64"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
-	"io/fs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
@@ -36,6 +35,7 @@ import (
 //go:generate ./generateCilium.sh
 //go:generate ./update-csi-charts.sh
 //go:generate ./generateCertManager.sh
+//go:generate ./update-aws-load-balancer-controller.sh
 
 //go:embed all:charts/*
 var helmFS embed.FS
@@ -639,12 +639,14 @@ func loadChartsDir(efs embed.FS, dir string) (*chart.Chart, error) {
 	rules.AddDefaults()
 
 	files := []*loader.BufferedFile{}
+	dir += string(filepath.Separator) // add trailing dash to match rules with pattern: dir/file.yaml
 
-	walk := func(path string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+	walkFn := func(path string, fi os.FileInfo, err error) error {
+		fmt.Println("walk", path, dir)
 		n := strings.TrimPrefix(path, dir)
 		if n == "" {
 			// No need to process top level. Avoid bug with helmignore .* matching
-			// empty names. See issue https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/issues/1776.
+			// empty names. See issue 1779.
 			return nil
 		}
 
@@ -656,12 +658,7 @@ func loadChartsDir(efs embed.FS, dir string) (*chart.Chart, error) {
 			return err
 		}
 
-		fi, err := d.Info()
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-
-		if d.IsDir() {
+		if fi.IsDir() {
 			// Directory-based ignore rules should involve skipping the entire
 			// contents of that directory.
 			if rules.Ignore(n, fi) {
@@ -671,7 +668,9 @@ func loadChartsDir(efs embed.FS, dir string) (*chart.Chart, error) {
 		}
 
 		// If a .helmignore file matches, skip this file.
+		fmt.Println("before ignore", n, fi.Name())
 		if rules.Ignore(n, fi) {
+			fmt.Print("Ignoring file: ", n, "\n")
 			return nil
 		}
 
@@ -694,7 +693,7 @@ func loadChartsDir(efs embed.FS, dir string) (*chart.Chart, error) {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	if err := fs.WalkDir(efs, dir, walk); err != nil {
+	if err := walk(dir, walkFn); err != nil {
 		return c, err
 	}
 
diff --git a/cli/internal/helm/loader_test.go b/cli/internal/helm/loader_test.go
index a3035443c..317e046de 100644
--- a/cli/internal/helm/loader_test.go
+++ b/cli/internal/helm/loader_test.go
@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ func TestLoad(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.NotNil(chart.Dependencies())
 }
 
-func TestLoadDeploy(t *testing.T) {
-	chart, err := loadChartsDir(helmFS, constellationServicesInfo.path) // helmFS, "./charts/edgeless/constellation-services/charts/aws-load-balancer-controller") //
+func TestIgnoreFilesInSubdirectory(t *testing.T) {
+	fileToIgnore := "crds/kustomization.yaml"
+	chart, err := loadChartsDir(helmFS, awsInfo.path)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	for _, f := range chart.Raw {
-		// fmt.Println("UNFILTERED", f.Name)
-		if strings.Contains(f.Name, "charts/aws-load-balancer-controller/crds/kustomization.yaml") {
+		if strings.Contains(f.Name, fileToIgnore) {
 			t.Error("helmignore should have filtered it out", f.Name)
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/cli/internal/helm/symwalk.go b/cli/internal/helm/symwalk.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..09d1b395e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/internal/helm/symwalk.go
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+/*
+Copyright (c) Edgeless Systems GmbH
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+*/
+
+package helm
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
+
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+)
+
+// copied from 3.12.1 	"helm.sh/helm/v3/internal/sympath"
+
+// Walk walks the file tree rooted at root, calling walkFn for each file or directory
+// in the tree, including root. All errors that arise visiting files and directories
+// are filtered by walkFn. The files are walked in lexical order, which makes the
+// output deterministic but means that for very large directories Walk can be
+// inefficient. Walk follows symbolic links.
+func walk(root string, walkFn filepath.WalkFunc) error {
+	info, err := os.Lstat(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		err = walkFn(root, nil, err)
+	} else {
+		err = symwalk(root, info, walkFn)
+	}
+	if err == filepath.SkipDir {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return err
+}
+
+// readDirNames reads the directory named by dirname and returns
+// a sorted list of directory entries.
+func readDirNames(dirname string) ([]string, error) {
+	f, err := os.Open(dirname)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	names, err := f.Readdirnames(-1)
+	f.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	sort.Strings(names)
+	return names, nil
+}
+
+// symwalk recursively descends path, calling walkFn.
+func symwalk(path string, info os.FileInfo, walkFn filepath.WalkFunc) error {
+	// Recursively walk symlinked directories.
+	if isSymlink(info) {
+		resolved, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(path)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrapf(err, "error evaluating symlink %s", path)
+		}
+		log.Printf("found symbolic link in path: %s resolves to %s. Contents of linked file included and used", path, resolved)
+		if info, err = os.Lstat(resolved); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if err := symwalk(path, info, walkFn); err != nil && err != filepath.SkipDir {
+			return err
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	if err := walkFn(path, info, nil); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if !info.IsDir() {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	names, err := readDirNames(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return walkFn(path, info, err)
+	}
+
+	for _, name := range names {
+		filename := filepath.Join(path, name)
+		fileInfo, err := os.Lstat(filename)
+		if err != nil {
+			if err := walkFn(filename, fileInfo, err); err != nil && err != filepath.SkipDir {
+				return err
+			}
+		} else {
+			err = symwalk(filename, fileInfo, walkFn)
+			if err != nil {
+				if (!fileInfo.IsDir() && !isSymlink(fileInfo)) || err != filepath.SkipDir {
+					return err
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// isSymlink is used to determine if the fileinfo is a symbolic link.
+func isSymlink(fi os.FileInfo) bool {
+	return fi.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink != 0
+}
diff --git a/cli/internal/helm/update-aws-load-balancer-chart.sh b/cli/internal/helm/update-aws-load-balancer-chart.sh
index d2d9f1564..6bfd1baac 100755
--- a/cli/internal/helm/update-aws-load-balancer-chart.sh
+++ b/cli/internal/helm/update-aws-load-balancer-chart.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # script is mostly copied from cli/internal/helm/update-csi-charts.sh
 
 set -euo pipefail
-set -o errtrac
+set -o errtrace
 shopt -s inherit_errexit
 
 echo "Updating AWS Load Balancer Controller Helm chart..."
@@ -35,12 +35,13 @@ git clone \
 git sparse-checkout add "${chart_dir}"
 git checkout
 cd "${callDir}"
-rm "${repo_tmp_dir}/${chart_dir}/crds/kustomization.yaml"
-rm "${repo_tmp_dir}/${chart_dir}/test.yaml"
+
+# remove values.yaml from upstream chart
 rm "${repo_tmp_dir}/${chart_dir}/values.yaml"
 
-# remove old chart
-rm -r "${chart_base_path:?}/${chart_name}"
+# delete current chart
+# but keep values.yaml
+find "${chart_base_path:?}/${chart_name}" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name "values.yaml" -exec rm -r {} +
 
 # move new chart
 mkdir -p "${chart_base_path}/${chart_name}"