kube-vip provides Kubernetes clusters with a virtual IP and load balancer for both the control plane and Kubernetes Services of type LoadBalancer.
It is designed for highly available Kubernetes deployments on bare metal, edge, virtualised, and other environments where external load-balancing hardware or cloud services are not available.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a virtual IP for highly available Kubernetes control planes.
- Supports Kubernetes Services of type LoadBalancer.
- Works with ARP, BGP, routing table, and WireGuard modes.
- Supports IPv4 and IPv6 VIP addresses.
- Can be deployed as static pods or as a DaemonSet.
- Supports kubeadm, K3s, and other Kubernetes environments.
- Offers address pools per namespace or globally.
- Supports DHCP, UPnP exposure, egress, and vendor integrations.
Website: github.com/kube-vip/kube-vip
Support:
Developer: kube-vip project
License: Apache License 2.0
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