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The Kubernetes Bible

You're reading from   The Kubernetes Bible The definitive guide to deploying and managing Kubernetes across cloud and on-prem environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835464717
Length 720 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gineesh Madapparambath Gineesh Madapparambath
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Russ McKendrick Russ McKendrick
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Preface 1. Kubernetes Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Kubernetes Architecture – from Container Images to Running Pods 3. Installing Your First Kubernetes Cluster 4. Running Your Containers in Kubernetes 5. Using Multi-Container Pods and Design Patterns 6. Namespaces, Quotas, and Limits for Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes 7. Configuring Your Pods Using ConfigMaps and Secrets 8. Exposing Your Pods with Services 9. Persistent Storage in Kubernetes 10. Running Production-Grade Kubernetes Workloads 11. Using Kubernetes Deployments for Stateless Workloads 12. StatefulSet – Deploying Stateful Applications 13. DaemonSet – Maintaining Pod Singletons on Nodes 14. Working with Helm Charts and Operators 15. Kubernetes Clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine 16. Launching a Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Web Services with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service 17. Kubernetes Clusters on Microsoft Azure with Azure Kubernetes Service 18. Security in Kubernetes 19. Advanced Techniques for Scheduling Pods 20. Autoscaling Kubernetes Pods and Nodes 21. Advanced Kubernetes: Traffic Management, Multi-Cluster Strategies, and More 22. Other Books You May Enjoy 23. Index

The LoadBalancer service

LoadBalancer services are a very interesting service to explain because this service relies on the cloud platform where the Kubernetes cluster is provisioned. For it to work, it is thus required to use Kubernetes on a cloud platform that supports the LoadBalancer service type.

For cloud providers that offer external load balancers, specifying the type field as LoadBalancer configures a load balancer for your Service. The creation of the load balancer occurs asynchronously, and details about the provisioned balancer are made available in the .status.loadBalancer field of the Service.

Certain cloud providers offer the option to define the loadBalancerIP. In such instances, the load balancer is generated with the specified loadBalancerIP. If the loadBalancerIP is not provided, the load balancer is configured with an ephemeral IP address. However, if you specify a loadBalancerIP on a cloud provider that does not support this feature, the provided loadBalancerIP is...

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