https://marktaguiad.dev/tags/metallb/ Recent content in Metallb on marktaguiad.dev Hugo en-us marktaguiad@marktaguiad.dev (Mark Taguiad) marktaguiad@marktaguiad.dev (Mark Taguiad) marktaguiad.dev Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:08:20 +0800 https://marktaguiad.dev/post/k8s-metallb/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:08:20 +0800marktaguiad@marktaguiad.dev (Mark Taguiad) https://marktaguiad.dev/post/k8s-metallb/ <p><img class="theme-image" src="https://marktaguiad.dev/images/devops/k8s-notes/k8s-metallb-001.png" data-light="/images/devops/k8s-notes/k8s-metallb-001.png" data-dark="/images/devops/k8s-notes/k8s-metallb-dark-001.png" alt="Architecture Diagram" > In cloud environments, Kubernetes provides external load balancing easily using Service type LoadBalancer, which integrates with cloud provider load balancers.</p> <p>However, in bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, there is no built-in implementation for external load balancers. As a result, creating a LoadBalancer service would remain in a pending state.</p> <p>MetalLB solves this problem by providing a network load balancer implementation for bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, allowing services to expose external IP addresses just like in cloud environments.</p>