Kubernetes Loadbalancers
Feature state:AME Kubernetes Loadbalancers functionality
Avisi Cloud Kubernetes supports dynamically provisioning Load Balancers. It does this by leveraging Kubernetes Cloud Controller functionality. Using a Kubernetes Service it is possible to provision and manage an external Cloud Load balancer.
Cloud Provider Support
Load Balancer provisioning is currently supported for the following Cloud Providers:
| Cloud Provider | Supported | |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | ✔️ | AWS Cloud Controller |
| DigitalOcean | ✔️ | DigitalOcean Cloud Controller |
| Hetzner | ✔️ | Hetzner Cloud Controller |
| Scaleway | ✔️ | Scaleway Cloud Controller |
| LeafCloud | ✔️ | Openstack Load Balancers |
| OpenStack | ✔️ | Openstack Load Balancers |
| VSphere | - | - |
| Bring Your Own Node | - | Customers have to install their own Load Balancer controller, such as MetalLB |
Load balancers in Kubernetes
Using a Kubernetes Service of type LoadBalancer, so you can provision a Cloud Load balancer automatically. These load balancers will forward traffic to your Service. Nodes within your cluster are automatically registered as targets for the Load Balancer.
Load balancer annotations
Load balancers can be configured with annotations on a Service. See Load balancer annotations for a full list of available annotations.
Note that the annotations differ for each Cloud Provider, due to different Load Balancer controller implementations.