April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
14h 34m
English
An external load balancer is configured via the service configuration file or directly through Kubectl. We use a service type of LoadBalancer instead of using a service type of ClusterIP, which directly exposes a Kubernetes node as a load balancer. This depends on an external load balancer provider being properly installed and configured in the cluster. Google's GKE is the most well-tested provider, but other cloud platforms provide their integrated solution on top of their cloud load balancer.
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