Kubernetes LoadBalancer

Kubernetes LoadBalancer exposes the Service externally using a cloud provider's load balancer.

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/

• kubectl create service loadbalancer

• kubectl expose deployment hello-world --type=LoadBalancer --name=my-service

kind: Service
.../...
type: LoadBalancer

Related

• ClusterIP
• NodePort
• ServiceTypes
• Ingress controller

See also

• Understand ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
• 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

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/stateless-application/expose-external-ip-address/