metallb
A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols [Moved to: https://github.com/metallb/metallb] (by google)
vc5
A distributed Layer 2 Direct Server Return (L2DSR) Layer 4 load balancer (L4LB) for Linux using XDP/eBPF (by davidcoles)
| metallb | vc5 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | |
| 4,956 | 75 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.8 | 8.7 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
metallb
Posts with mentions or reviews of metallb.
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Simple ingress from host with microk8s?
The best I've gotten so far is using MetalLB to create a load balancer. But this required me to use a free IP address available on my local network rather than the host machines IP address.
vc5
Posts with mentions or reviews of vc5.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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Load Balancing
Should you wish to give DSR load balancing a go without having to invest in hardware/licenses you could try https://github.com/davidcoles/vc5
Put that in front of some HAProxy servers to do TLS termination and farm out requests to another layer of NGINX/uWSGI boxes and Robert is your cousins father.
- a load balancer with XDP and Go
- vc5 - Load balancer with XDP and Go.
- Show HN: I wrote a load balancer with XDP and Go
What are some alternatives?
When comparing metallb and vc5 you can also consider the following projects:
kube-router - Kube-router, a turnkey solution for Kubernetes networking.
back-to-back - proof of concept io queue
openelb - Load Balancer Implementation for Kubernetes in Bare-Metal, Edge, and Virtualization
durdur - eBPF-powered L3/L4 packet dropper.