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Kubernetes - A Complete DevOps Cookbook

You're reading from  Kubernetes - A Complete DevOps Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828042
Pages 584 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Murat Karslioglu Murat Karslioglu
Profile icon Murat Karslioglu

Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface 1. Building Production-Ready Kubernetes Clusters 2. Operating Applications on Kubernetes 3. Building CI/CD Pipelines 4. Automating Tests in DevOps 5. Preparing for Stateful Workloads 6. Disaster Recovery and Backup 7. Scaling and Upgrading Applications 8. Observability and Monitoring on Kubernetes 9. Securing Applications and Clusters 10. Logging with Kubernetes 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating an external load balancer

The load balancer service type is a relatively simple service alternative to ingress that uses a cloud-based external load balancer. The external load balancer service type's support is limited to specific cloud providers but is supported by the most popular cloud providers, including AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and OpenStack.

In this section, we will expose our workload ports using a load balancer. We will learn how to create an external GCE/AWS load balancer for clusters on public clouds, as well as for your private cluster using inlet-operator.

Getting ready

Make sure you have a Kubernetes cluster ready and kubectl and helm configured to manage the cluster resources. In this recipe, we are using a cluster that's been deployed on AWS using kops, as described in Chapter 1, Building Production-Ready Kubernetes Clusters, in the Amazon Web Services recipe. The same instructions will work on all major cloud providers.

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