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The whole

metallb

-question (I never needed it) came up while I tried to make a Rancher

questions.yml

file for a really nice app for IOT called "Mainflux" (https://github.com/exocode/mainflux). If you like you can quickly deploy it within the Rancher Catalog (you have to add it to the Catalog of course). While creating, simply keep everything default only choose InfluxDb). You will see, that all Services/Loadbalancer L4 hang on "Pending", which is normal if I have no real Loadbalancer. I got it running with my old

nginx-ingress

approach (I posted before). But then I have these seven or more services which are all in Pending state, which looks not nice in my "Load Balancing" list: So I tried to "mock" a real LB (and as far I understood, metallb can do that)