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Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide - Second Edition

You're reading from  Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230030
Pages 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Marc Boorshtein Marc Boorshtein
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Scott Surovich Scott Surovich
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Docker and Container Essentials 2. Deploying Kubernetes Using KinD 3. Kubernetes Bootcamp 4. Services, Load Balancing, ExternalDNS, and Global Balancing 5. Integrating Authentication into Your Cluster 6. RBAC Policies and Auditing 7. Deploying a Secured Kubernetes Dashboard 8. Extending Security Using Open Policy Agent 9. Node Security with GateKeeper 10. Auditing Using Falco, DevOps AI, and ECK 11. Backing Up Workloads 12. An Introduction to Istio 13. Building and Deploying Applications on Istio 14. Provisioning a Platform 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Load balancing between multiple clusters

Running services in multiple clusters can be configured in multiple ways, usually requiring complex and expensive add-ons such as global load balancers from companies like F5. These are very common in the enterprise, and while many organizations implement clusters using add-ons like F5's Global Service Load Balancers (GSLB), there are projects available that provide similar functionality that are low, or no cost, and native to Kubernetes. These projects do not replace all of the features that the vendor solutions provide, but in many cases, we do not need all of the features from the more expensive solutions – we require only a small subset of the features provided.

A new project that has recently been released is K8GB, a CNCF sandbox project. To learn about the project, browse to the project's main page at https://www.k8gb.io.

Since we are using KinD and a single host for our cluster, this section of the book is meant...

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