external-dns
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services (by kubernetes-sigs)
metallb
A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols (by metallb)
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external-dns
Posts with mentions or reviews of external-dns.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.
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Upgrading Hundreds of Kubernetes Clusters
The second one is a combination of tools: External DNS, cert-manager, and NGINX ingress. Using these as a stack, you can quickly deploy an application, making it available through a DNS with a TLS without much effort via simple annotations. When I first discovered External DNS, I was amazed at its quality.
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Kubernetes External DNS provider for Hetzner
One of the reasons why I chose Hetzner was that it WAS supported by the ExternalDNS project. I didn't quite understand why the Hetzner provider was pulled, but I saw that an attempt of re-adding it was refused, on the ground that the upcoming webhook architecture would have allowed to better maintain providers.
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Istio Multi-Cluster Setup
Write a custom controller for the external DNS controller, or setup some form of ArgoCD app / appset templating.
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Looking for ExternalDns alternative for non k8s environment
so I am looking at having an automated way for new routers registered in Traefik to also have the corresponding DNS entry added to my Pihole instance similar to external-dns but obviously, this is exclusive to ingress on k8s environments. my current setup is traefik in a container on unraid.
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Is a Load Balancer necessary for a HA Cluster?
You technically don’t need to run a load balancer or have a virtual IP for your control plane. If you control your dns, you can add an A record pointing to all IPs for your control plane nodes. It won’t load balance your traffic, but combined with something like External DNS it gives you HA for the control plane.
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How can I assign an EIP to a Kubernetes deployment?
I normally deploy external-dns, which automatically updates DNS with the ingress controller's external IP address.
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Registering DNS with Windows Domain DNS
Background: Having a look I can see this https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
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Cluster nodes on different networks
3) Use the Kubernetes External-DNS. I've never used this, but this is assuming it can update DNS for each pods/app to point to the correct Node (it'd need to update my Homelab DNS running on Windows Server)
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I am stuck on learning how to provision K8s in AWS. Security groups? ALB? ACM? R53?
So here’s the solution I have taken for our current stack. EKS and its dependencies are created through terraform using the eks module as well as provision a route53 subdomain and a wildcard cert. Once we have that created, I have installed this deployment into the cluster via the helm module: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-load-balancer-controller/v2.4/. This allows me to use kuberentes resources (load balancers or ingress objects) and it will handle all the provisioning of load balancers and security groups for me, based on my application yaml and annotations. We also use https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns to manage all of our specific host names for the applications through annotations. So to generally put, terraform manages out Kubernetes clusters, and Kubernetes manages the deployment of anything needed for the application including volumes, load balancers, hostnames though Kubernetes system deployments
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How to expose services/apps to my home network with custom DNS names
Metallb for your load balancer (layer2 mode will do) NginX-ingress, will be spot on for internal home apps External-dns to publish your dns record to your Dns server at home, https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
metallb
Posts with mentions or reviews of metallb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.
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Self hosted kubernetes
Hey guys, I want to share a guide I’m pretty proud of which is talking about setting up kubernetes which leverages https://kubespray.io/#/ and https://metallb.universe.tf/ so you can host this yourself most people when spinning up kubernetes opt for k3s or get stuck with all the options or unable to setup the external ips for their services so these tools will eliminate the problem.
- Deploy web app in port 80 using kubernetes
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How to load balance highly available bare metal Kubernetes cluster control plane nodes?
Have a closer look at MetallLB.
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Trouble with RKE2 HA Setup: Part 2
To avoid that, you can use a combination of haproxy and keepalived, an enterprise grade load balancer like the one from F5 or Citrix. Besides that you can also work with https://kube-vip.io or https://metallb.universe.tf.
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Kubernetes and feeling defeated
Not sure if klipper is usable in a cluster with multiple nodes, as it binds to one port only. You may want to use MetalLB instead: https://metallb.universe.tf/
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Cool stuff to deploy for a project ideas
Then deploy MetalLB https://metallb.universe.tf/
- Load balance ingress for baremetal
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Own kubernetes cluster
What issue do you see with the load balancer? For self hosted clusters, one can use MetalLB for example to have such single outfacing IP which will failover to another node keeping the same IP if a node dies.
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PaperLB: A Kubernetes Network Load Balancer Implementation
Quoting from their docs:
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libvirt-k8s-provisioner - Ansible and terraform to build a cluster from scratch in less than 10 minutes ok KVM - Updated for 1.26
metalLB to manage bare-metal LoadBalancer services - WIP - Only L2 configuration can be set-up via playbook.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing external-dns and metallb you can also consider the following projects:
cloudflare-ingress-controller - A Kubernetes ingress controller for Cloudflare's Argo Tunnels
kube-vip - Kubernetes Control Plane Virtual IP and Load-Balancer
ingress-nginx - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes
calico - Cloud native networking and network security
crossplane - The Cloud Native Control Plane
PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
awx-operator - An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖
rancher - Complete container management platform
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
kube-plex - Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!
external-dns vs cloudflare-ingress-controller
metallb vs kube-vip
external-dns vs ingress-nginx
metallb vs calico
external-dns vs crossplane
metallb vs ingress-nginx
external-dns vs PowerDNS
metallb vs cert-manager
external-dns vs awx-operator
metallb vs rancher
external-dns vs k3s
metallb vs kube-plex