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user1687711
user1687711

Reputation: 443

Kube proxy load balance across machines

My understanding is that Kube-proxy can load balance the services running across machines? Can someone confirm, that is what it is designed for.. Rgs

Upvotes: 0

Views: 466

Answers (2)

Tim Hockin
Tim Hockin

Reputation: 3662

kube-proxy is more of a "load-spreader" than load-balancer. It does not actively consider the target load, it just distributes incoming requests to backends in an approximately equal proportion.

From within a Kubernetes cluster it also implements a form of VIP, which redirects traffic for a virtual service to the backends for that service.

It should work across machines or on the same machine.

Upvotes: 2

Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson

Reputation: 13377

Yes. The kube-proxy ensures that traffic sent to a service is load balanced to one of the endpoints that implements that service.

Upvotes: 1

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