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# k3sa
adamant-kite-43734
09/07/2023, 11:24 AMThis message was deleted.
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creamy-pencil-82913
09/07/2023, 4:10 PMit just uses the cluster nodes as LB endpoints.
https://docs.k3s.io/networking#how-servicelb-works
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some-florist-16358
09/08/2023, 12:06 AMso, that means, actually it does not distribute any access traffic at node level, if so what's major difference with nodeport way for exposing the service?
some-florist-16358
09/08/2023, 12:11 AManother confuse is why ServiceLB still create a nodeport however a same port as cluster service port will be created automatically when createing loadbalance type service. what's usage about this nodeport?
some-florist-16358
09/08/2023, 12:15 AM@creamy-pencil-82913
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creamy-pencil-82913
09/08/2023, 12:19 AMIt’s not a real loadbalancer
creamy-pencil-82913
09/08/2023, 12:20 AMbut it lets you use services of type LoadBalancer in environments that don’t have an external loadbalancer available, when you don’t want to deploy something more complicated like kube-vip or metallb
creamy-pencil-82913
09/08/2023, 12:20 AMit’s like the local-path provisioner for PVCs - better than nothing, if you want to use PVs. It’s not intended to be any more than that.
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some-florist-16358
09/08/2023, 7:54 AMappreciated for your help!
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