How I moved from MetalLB to Cilium

MetalLB Since running my Kubernetes cluster at home, I ran MetalLB for load-balancing in layer 2 mode. Layer 2 mode doesn’t implement load-balancing. It’s instead a fail-over mechanism should one node fail. All traffic for a service IP goes to one node, and KubeProxy forwards it. Apart from layer 2 mode, MetalLB also supports BGP mode, which is fundamentally different and more comparable with the implementation of Cilium. More about that is in the official documentation of MetalLB....

January 27, 2023 · 3 min · Dario