Index for MetalLB L2 deployment to bare metal.

Abstract

Documentation index for MetalLB L2 deployment.

Index for MetalLB L2 deployment to bare metal.#

MetalLB Readme#

You can find the main website at metallb.io.

MetalLB deployment#

  1. Create networking namespace[1].

    kubectl create ns networking

  2. Update the values file for your environment.

  3. Deploy the L2 version to your cluster.

    helm install --namespace networking metallb . -f values.yaml

  4. Define a simple IPAddressPool.

    IPAddressPool.yaml#
    apiVersion: metallb.io/v1beta1
kind: IPAddressPool
metadata:
  name: example
  namespace: metallb-system
spec:
  addresses:
  - 192.168.10.0/24
  - 192.168.9.1-192.168.9.5
  - fc00:f853:0ccd:e799::/124

    You can see this example and more, in the metallb helm repostory.

  5. Apply a simple IPAddressPool.

    kubectl apply --namespace metallb-system -f IPAddressPool.yaml

  6. Define an L2Advertisement.

    L2Advertisement.yaml#
    apiVersion: metallb.io/v1beta1
kind: L2Advertisement
metadata:
  name: example
  namespace: metallb-system

  7. Apply the L2Advertisement

    kubectl --namespace metallb-system -f L2Advertisement.yaml

    More information is available from the metallb documentation.

MetalLB SubCharts#

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