Load Balancer for Istio Bare Metal

1

Whats the best option for load balancing to multiple Istio Ingress Gateway on bare metal? On premise environment?

2

Well could someone at least comment on metallb?

3

I use metallb daily with Istio and it works well.

4

Ok, great. I will try it. Any tips on how what sort of network setup for the available ip addresses. I will need to point a domain at one of them.

5

I’ve put my deployment script here:

https://github.com/sdake/deploy-k8s

Cheers
-steve

6

Hi peeps. I’ve added v1.17 scripts as well to the repository https://github.com/sdake/deploy-k8s at the request of several individuals.

Cheers
-steve

7

HI gang. I’ve added an ansible script to deploy and delete K8s + calico + metallb for virtual machine environments in your local setup with mutlinode. I have also added K8s 1.18 support.

More from twitter:

Enjoy

Cheers,
-steve

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Hi, I have a setup of istio and metalLB in my bare-metal k8s cluster. Does the traffic from external client first hits metallb or Istio ? if it hits Istio only, I am wondering if metalLB is just used for providing external IP and not doing any loadbalancing ? it has nothing to do with data plane traffic ?