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Published inMar 2020
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Murat Karslioglu
Murat Karslioglu
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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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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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Published in: Mar 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838828042

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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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