Chapter 14: Load Balancer Configuration and SSL Certificates
In this chapter, we'll be covering the very important task of how to publish our applications that are being hosted inside Kubernetes to the outside world using load balancers and ingress rules. We'll be going over the four main techniques: round-robin DNS, passive external load balancer, active external load balancer, and an integrated load balancer. We'll look at the pros and cons along with an example of each technique, and we'll dive into the best practices for each method. Finally, we will cover how to bring SSL certificates to your cluster.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Why do we need an external load balancer to support a Kubernetes cluster? ...
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