April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
14h 34m
English
Dynamic load balancing across clusters is not trivial. The simplest solution is to just say that it is not Kubernetes's responsibility. Load balancing will be performed outside the Kubernetes cluster federation. But given the dynamic nature of Kubernetes, even an external load balancer will have to gather a lot of information about which services and backend pods are running on each cluster. An alternative solution is for the federation control plane to implement an L7 load balancer that serves as traffic director for the entire federation. In one of the simpler use cases, each service runs on a dedicated cluster and the load balancer simply routes all traffic to that cluster. In case of cluster failure, ...
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