Equinix-native Load Balancer-as-a-Service now in public beta
Equinix-native Load Balancer-as-a-Service. It’s now in public beta, and if you have an Equinix Metal account you can take it for a spin free of charge (while in beta) via the console or the Metal API. Making it especially powerful is its use of our global high-speed network backbone. Launch an instance, and your user traffic will automatically get in the internet’s fast lane at the closest location possible! You can read more about that—and generally about the direction of the product—in thisblog post. If you want to spin up a load balancer and feel the magic for yourself, all the details are in the docs. Here’s also a live demo from our recent developer event.
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-docs
