Guidelines on how to choose the right load balancer for your applications

Now that we've gone over choices, it would be useful to have a cheat sheet to rapidly compare some crucial features to assist us in deciding which one to utilize.

In the following table, we will cover some of the important parameters in choosing the right option:

Table 7.1 – How to choose the right load balancer

In conclusion, it all boils down to a few choices. When using LoadBalancer, especially on bare metal, it works great because the Service can choose which port it wishes to use. The disadvantage is that it can be costly, as each Service will have its own load balancer and external IP address, both of which cost money in the cloud environment. Ingress is becoming the most popular Service when connected with a MetalLB load balancer because it reduces the number of IPs used while still allowing each service to have its own name and/or Uniform Resource...