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Thursday, March 5, 2020

MetalLB load balancer for your Rancher 2 Kubernetes cluster

It is fairly simple to setup a kubernetes baremetal cluster with rancher 2 which comes with all the bells and whistles. I however had some touch time in figuring out why I couldnt get the metallb load balaner working.
First setup your rancher 2 baremetal cluster.
Then go to
After this deploy the metallb on your kubernetes cluster as per
https://metallb.universe.tf/installation/
then deploy a configmap with an ip pool.

kubectl run nginx --image nginx
kubectl expose deployment nginx --type=LoadBalancer --name=nginx-service

Now you will see an exteranl IP from the metallb ip pool. You delete the service and metallb will reclaim it.