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Technologies
Components within a Kubernetes Cluster

Features

Roadmap

Release methodology
Roadmap
- HA Kubernetes Control Plane
- Kubernetes service type:LoadBalancer
Global kube-vip items

Production Usage

kube-vip Maturity
Adoption
Key Usage

Modes

ARP

BGP

- Configuration overview

Routing Tables

Wireguard

Installation

Static Pods

kube-vip as HA, Load Balancer, or both
Generating a Manifest

DaemonSet

kube-vip as HA, Load Balancer, or both
Create the RBAC settings
Generating a Manifest

Flags and Environment Variables

Flags
Environment Variables

Usage

Kubernetes Load-Balancer service

Configure kube-vip to ignore a service
Kubernetes LoadBalancer Class (Kubernetes v1.24+) (kube-vip v0.5.0+)
Multiple services on the same IP
Load Balancing Load Balancers (when using ARP mode, yes you read that correctly) (kube-vip v0.5.0+)
External traffic policy (kube-vip v0.5.0+)
Using DHCP for Load Balancers (experimental) (kube-vip v0.2.1+)
Using UPnP to expose a Service to the outside world
- Enable UPnP
- Exposing a Service with UPnP

On-Premises (kube-vip-cloud-controller)

Cloud Controller Manager
Using the kube-vip Cloud Provider
Install the kube-vip Cloud Provider
Create a global CIDR or IP Range
- The kube-vip Cloud Provider ConfigMap
- Expose a Service

K3s

Prerequisites (on Equinix Metal)
Clean Environment
Step 1: Create Manifests Folder
Step 2: Upload kube-vip RBAC Manifest
Step 3: Generate a kube-vip DaemonSet Manifest
Step 4: Install a HA K3s Cluster
Step 5: Service Load Balancing

KinD

Deploying KIND
Find Address Pool for kube-vip
Deploy the kube-vip Cloud Controller
Add our Address range
Install kube-vip
Deploy kube-vip as a DaemonSet
Test

Wireguard

Pre-requisistes
Architecture
- Secrets

rancher desktop

Disable the existing Load Blancer
Applying kube-vip

vcluster

Equinix Metal

BGP with Equinix Metal
Configure to use a container runtime
Creating HA clusters in Equinix Metal
- Creating a manifest using the API
- Creating a manifest using the metadata
Load Balancing services on Equinix Metal
Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Wireguard

Wireguard

vcluster

rancher desktop

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