metallb VS external-dns

Compare metallb vs external-dns and see what are their differences.

metallb

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

external-dns

Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services (by kubernetes-sigs)
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metallb external-dns
78 78
6,554 7,188
2.0% 2.7%
9.4 9.6
6 days ago 6 days ago
Go Go
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.

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 2023-11-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing metallb and external-dns you can also consider the following projects:

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

calico - Cloud native networking and network security

ingress-nginx - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

cloudflare-ingress-controller - A Kubernetes ingress controller for Cloudflare's Argo Tunnels

crossplane - The Cloud Native Control Plane

PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

awx-operator - An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖

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!

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes