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Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide - Second Edition

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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

Layer 4 load balancers

Layer 4 of the OSI model is responsible for protocols such as TCP and UDP. A load balancer that is running in layer 4 accepts incoming traffic based on the only IP address and port. The incoming request is accepted by the load balancer, and based on a set of rules, the traffic is sent to the destination IP address and port.

There are lower-level networking operations in the process that are beyond the scope of this book. HAproxy has a good summary of the terminology and example configurations on their website at https://www.haproxy.com/fr/blog/loadbalancing-faq/.

Layer 4 load balancer options

There are multiple options available to you if you want to configure a layer 4 load balancer for a Kubernetes cluster. Some of the options include the following:

  • HAproxy
  • NGINX Pro
  • SeeSaw
  • F5 Networks
  • MetalLB
  • And more…

Each option provides layer 4 load balancing, but for the purpose of this book, we felt...

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