metallb VS calico

Compare metallb vs calico and see what are their differences.

metallb

A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols (by metallb)

calico

Cloud native networking and network security (by projectcalico)
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metallb calico
78 17
6,554 5,386
2.0% 2.3%
9.4 9.9
6 days ago 7 days ago
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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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.

calico

Posts with mentions or reviews of calico. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-01.
  • Kubernetes Setup With WSL Control Plane and Raspberry Pi Workers
    5 projects | dev.to | 1 Sep 2023
    wget -O calicoctl https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/releases/latest/download/calicoctl-linux-amd64 chmod +x calicoctl sudo mv calicoctl /usr/local/bin/
  • How do you build a repo for ArgoCD?
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 8 Nov 2022
    $ kubectl apply -k ./ --dry-run='client' error: accumulating resources: accumulation err='accumulating resources from 'https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/manifests/tigera-operator.yaml?ref=v3.24.4': URL is a git repository': '/tmp/kustomize-3674962985/manifests/tigera-operator.yaml' refers to file 'tigera-operator.yaml'; expecting directory
  • How do I get rid of the 'calico' pods? My coreDNS pods are stuck in pending status
    4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 21 Jun 2022
    I tried this, but it didn't work: https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/blob/master/calico/hack/remove-calico-policy/remove-policy.md
    4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 21 Jun 2022
  • Letting VMs talk to Kubernetes
    6 projects | dev.to | 29 Apr 2022
    If you do kubectl get pods --all-namespaces will show all the pods in Pending state, that's because we don't have any network plugin configured with our Kubernetes cluster. I use Calico network plugin for this demo but you can use any Kubernetes network plugin of your choice as long it has ability to define host gateway routes.
  • K3S Calico networking Issues
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 Sep 2021
  • DNS timeout on EKS
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 21 Aug 2021
    turned out its a calico bug, created a ticket for it https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/issues/4866
  • Networking problems in k3s
    2 projects | /r/rancher | 29 Mar 2021
    So, I've setup this k3s cluster of mine at home on four different Raspberry Pi 4b devices. At first, everything is working perfectly. I've decided to use https://github.com/projectcalico/calico for my CNI, and it seems to be working. Also, I decided to use https://github.com/metallb/metallb/ to provision load balancers on my cluster. All of that is great.
  • Who is running Kubernetes on bare metal?
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 13 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing metallb and calico you can also consider the following projects:

kube-vip - Kubernetes Control Plane Virtual IP and Load-Balancer

ingress-nginx - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

flannel - flannel is a network fabric for containers, designed for Kubernetes

external-dns - Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services

cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

rancher - Complete container management platform

kube-plex - Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!

cilium-cli - CLI to install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium

k3sup - bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀

PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

proxmox-k8s

charts - ⚠️ Deprecated : Helm charts for applications you run at home