MetalLB with Federico Paolinelli

The Developers' Bakery

Today we talk about cloud ☁️ as we have on stage Federico Paolinelli from Red Hat to talk us about MetalLB.

MetalLB is a load balancer for Kubernetes instances deployed on bare metal. If you like me are curious to learn what this means, what is Kubernetes, why do you need a load balancer and why would you deploy on bare metal… don’t miss this episode!

Federico will walk us through this project, explaining how he became a maintainer of a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, what are its use cases and its challenges.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.45 Episode Start
• 01.19 Federico’s Introduction
• 07.30 What is MetalLB?
• 08.07 What is Kubernetes?
• 10.23 What is a Load Balancer?
• 12.16 Running Kubernetes on bare metal
• 15.16 Load Balancing Internals
• 20.07 Unexpected use cases
• 22.02 What’s the history of MetalLB?
• 24.23 The RedHat model
• 26.19 CI and Testing
• 28.45 Go vs Rust?
• 33.37 What does it mean to join the CNCF?
• 37.12 How is this project funded?
• 39.42 The future of MetalLB
• 40.55 Further reading
• 42.45 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• metallb/metallb on Github
• MetalLB Official Website
• MetalLB and FRR: a match made in heaven - FOSDEM 2023
• @fedepaol on Twitter
• @fedepaol on Github
• @fedepaol on Mastodon
• Federicos’s Website

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter