What are your plans for the Equinix Metal Load Balancer service?
Tyler Auerbeck introduced us to the new Load Balancer (EMLB) service during his Equinix Demo Day Winter 2023 session, https://deploy.equinix.com/events/demo-day-2/. Now that all Equinix Metal users have access to this feature through the console and API, what are you planning to do with it? The service is documented athttps://deploy.equinix.com/developers/docs/metal/networking/load-balancers/. One of the first integrations to be released is the Cloud Provider Equinix Metal (CPEM) support for managing Kubernetes Service resources with the LoadBalancer type. The integration will provision EMLB load balancers and pools and configure ports to map to the Kubernetes nodes and ports where the service is available. The dozens of API calls all happen automatically when CPEM is used in a Kubernetes cluster running on Equinix Metal! The CPEM docs for using this integration are in the project README:https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-equinix-metal#service-load-balancers. More API documentation is available at: https://github.com/equinix/lbaas-api-docsCPEM officially in the K8s Cloud Provider SIG
As ofversion 3.6.2, Cloud Provider Equinix Metalis officially part of the Kubernetes Cloud Provider Special Interest Group!We are happy to offer up the work we continue to do on CPEM to a larger community and allow broader engagement. You can find (and contribute to) the repo underkubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-equinix-metalor find Equinix listed in the SIG Cloud Provider communityreadme. Recent updates include fixed elastic IP annotations for those still using facilities (which are being deprecated) as well as a fix to CPEM's use ofMetalLBv0.12.1."What Is" Series
stevemarturned me onto Equinix's "What is?" series where each article explores a new technology or topic. For example, you may know what iPXE is but did you know that Equinix actually boots up iPXE for every supported operating system of ours? There's a lot to learn, so give these a read. I'll add some of them below: What is an API https://deploy.equinix.com/developers/guides/what-is-api What is Colocation https://deploy.equinix.com/developers/guides/what-is-colocation What is iPXE https://deploy.equinix.com/developers/guides/what-is-ipxe/ What is Kubernetes https://deploy.equinix.com/developers/guides/what-is-kubernetes What is NVMe https://deploy.equinix.com/developers/guides/what-is-nvmeCAPP v0.7.2 released - Fixes install and new node issue
We've released v0.7.2 to comply with the new kubernetes package repositories new key signing process. This new process prevented cluster-api installs from working at all. Please update to v0.7.2 so you can deploy new nodes again. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-packet/releases/tag/v0.7.2Cloud Provider Equinix Metal v3.6.0 Release
This release is v3.6.0 of the cloud-provider-equinix-metal project, which provides a Kubernetes cloud controller manager for Equinix Metal. It includes 25 changes, the most exciting change being an upgrade path for users to get the latest version of MetalLB. This means better BGP-based network load balancing across their enabled worker nodes via custom resources. A lesser but still important change is that CPEM no longer does a health check on an incorrect service if said service was created in the default namespace. Various other updates were also bundled into this version such as updating Go language dependencies and improving linting for developer code.Check out the CPEM documentation for MetalLB for more details and review a sample migration path provided by MetalLB.What conferences are folks attending this year?
Hey folks, As conference seasons is quickly approaching are there any must-attend conferences that you'll be going to? I plan on going to KubeCon EU, KubeHuddle Toronto, and hopefully some of the DevOps Days conferences (Austin and Chicago, maybe?). If you're going to be at one of those feel free to reach out and we can connect in person. Any other conference or event suggestions?
