Provisioning and managing load balancers in hybrid and multi-cloud environments can become a hassle. Kubernetes does not offer any implementation for service Load Balancers and the reliance on cloud-provider implementations imposes various limitations across diverse environments, especially for the bare metal clusters.
This presentation will showcase a new approach to managing your Kubernetes Load Balancers across different clusters using a GatewayAPI implementation and setting up a dedicated Load Balancer cluster with a centralized management plane, demonstrating the pros and cons of managing multiple Envoy Gateways in a multi-cluster setup and leveraging Gateway API, which has emerged as a new standard for managing both L4 and L7 traffic in the Kubernetes clusters.
Join this session and we will share our experience of how GatewayAPI with some additional Kubernetes controllers sauce can help end-users redefine application Load Balancing in hybrid and multi-cluster environments.