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Metal LB
Metal LB documentation
Metal LB
Description
This component ensures that the solution is connected to the network layer of the environment. Pods distributed across each of the solution's worker nodes ensure that Kubernetes responds to an address or network range.
Warning Over time, MetalLB and Calico overlap in definition and functionality. It's important to consider the implementation based on your use case.
Uses and Functionnalities
Often interpreted as an on-prem alternative to cloud host loadbalancers, this component allows the persistence of an IP address for Kubernetes' Ingress Loadbalancers. In fact, a network address is carried by a host (often nodes), when the host goes down, it allows the transfer of the IP address to another host, thus avoiding a network outage.
In addition, it can be deployed according to tags at the node level, thus making it possible to define nodes which will be able to communicate externally while others (which do not have the defined tag) will remain dedicated to calculation or other activities.
CICD integration method
Releases
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