load balancing
The Hidden Cost of “Just Works” Load Balancing in a Service Mesh
If you’re running a multi-AZ Kubernetes cluster with a service mesh on top, there’s a good chance you’re paying a tax you never signed up for, and it won’t show up as ...
Survey Surfaces Myriad Kubernetes Networking Challenges
New survey data shows Kubernetes networking complexity rising, with teams struggling across observability, egress, multi-cluster security, and tool sprawl—highlighting the growing need for platform engineering and unified networking approaches ...
OpenELB K8s Load Balancer Plugin Becomes CNCF Sandbox Project
An OpenELB load balancer that plugs into Kubernetes clusters has become a sandbox level project under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Originally developed by the KubeSphere community, OpenELB ...
Tuning K8s Performance and Cost With NGINX Ingress Metrics
There are load balancers, and then there are load balancers. Broadly speaking, there are two variations of NGINX: The first variation is open source with many contributors and an install base of—perhaps—billions ...
Kong Updates Service Mesh to Replace Load Balancers
Kong today announced the general availability of version 1.4 of Kong Mesh that the company says could eliminate the need for traditional load balancers in decentralized IT environments running microservices-based applications. Marco ...
