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Vultr Kubernetes Load Balancer | About

This  Load Balancer is an additional feature offered by the Vultr cloud hosting provider. It enables us to easily create as well as manage load balancers for our Kubernetes clusters.

Load balancing is a useful technique that helps distribute network traffic across multiple servers. In other words, it ensures that workloads are evenly distributed and also prevents any one server from becoming overloaded.

On the other hand, Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform. It automates the deployment, scaling, as well as management of containerized applications. With this Load Balancer feature, we can create load balancers that work hand in hand with their Kubernetes clusters. This results in high availability and scalability for the applications.

Furthermore, in order to use this Load Balancer, we need to have a Kubernetes cluster running on Vultr. Then we will create a load balancer via the Vultr API or the Vultr web interface, mentioning the target Kubernetes service as well as the desired load-balancing algorithm.

Additionally, this Load Balancer supports several load-balancing algorithms. This includes round-robin, least connections, and IP hash.

We can also configure health checks to verify that only healthy nodes are receiving traffic.

Some of the benefits offered by this Load Balancer include:

• Simplified load balancing

  We can easily create and manage load balancers for our Kubernetes clusters without setting up and configuring our own load balancer software.
• High availability

  Load balancers ensure that applications are available even if one or more servers fail.
• Scalability

  Furthermore, Load balancers distribute traffic evenly across multiple servers, enabling easy scalability for the applications.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our Support Techs introduced us to Vultr Kubernetes Load Balancer and its many benefits.