IPVS

IPVS provides more options for balancing traffic to backend Pods; these are:

• rr: round-robin
• lc: least connection (smallest number of open connections)

• dh: destination hashing
• sh: source hashing
• sed: shortest expected delay
• nq: never queue

See also

• Kubernetes networking: network policies, Network Policy Providers, CNI, Calico, flannel, Service mesh, Istio, kube-proxy, coredns, AWS VPC CNI: vpc-cni, Kubernetes: Ingress controllers, IPVS, ServiceTypes: LoadBalancer, ClusterIP, NodePort, ExternalName, Endpoints, EndpointSlices, Kubernetes DNS, svc.cluster.local, Weave Net
• Kubernetes: distributions, tools, CKA, CKS, Kubernetes interfaces: CSI, CNI, installation, workloads, networking, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, kube-proxy, Cloud services: EKS, GKE, TKE, DKS, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes Finalizers, logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind:, Kubernetes namespaces, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors, CoreDNS, CRI, Kubernetes Topology Manager, Kubernetes governance: (SIG, KEP), Kustomize, controllers, ReadinessProbe, LivenessProbe, KOPS, K9s, Kui, k3s, ImagePullBackOff, PDB, EndPoints, Kots, metadata, Karpenter, Replicated.com, Kubernetes Authenticating, Kubernetes timeline, Changelog/Versions, service accounts, Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle, Kubernetes Conformance Certified, Kubernetes backup, Kubernetes Pod Security Admission, tEKS, Kubernetes events, Kubernetes ports, Kubernetes policies, Connect, addons, DoKC, Kubernetes control plane, Kubernetes Federation, Kubernetes info, Kubetest2, Sidecar (Kubernetes)