Introduction to kube-vip: Bare Metal Load Balancing (RTFM with Rawkode)

In this episode, joined by my colleague Dan Finneran, we take a practical look at one of his open source projects, Plunder, and get hands on with the kube-vip component.

Plunder is a single-binary server that is all designed in order to make the provisioning of servers, platforms and applications easier. It is deployed as a server that an end user can interact with through it's Api-server in order to control and automate the usage.

kube-vip is a Kubernetes Virtual IP and Load-Balancer for the Kubernetes control pane and services. It is a small self-contained and highly available option for bare metal and edge (Arm, embedded, and/or IoT) environments.


🕰. Timeline

00:00 - Holding screen
01:25 - Introductions
04:40 - Introduction to Plunder (Bare metal provisioning tool)
06:00 - Dan takes down a hotel network
08:00 - What makes bare metal Kubernetes different from managed services?
09:40 - What are we going to demo today?
12:00 - VIP for Kubernetes Control Plane High Availability (HA)
35:00 - Load balancing Kubernetes services using a LoadBalancer service (DHCP and BGP)


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🌎 Links

Dan Finneran - https://twitter.com/thebsdbox
Plunder - https://github.com/plunder-app/
kube-vip - https://github.com/plunder-app/kube-vip