How to balance virtual machine traffic with Kubernetes services

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Kubernetes service constructs create highly available services in mixed container and VM environments without any external components. By Fatih Nar (Navigator, Red Hat), Rimma Iontel (Red Hat).

OpenShift supports the best of both virtualization worlds: virtual machines (VMs) and containers. In the containers and Kubernetes world, the “services” model permits external access to and consumption of applications that are deployed as containers within the pods.

In the article you will find:

  • How OpenShift creates VMs
  • Implement load balancing with multiple VMs
  • Test VM traffic
  • Create highly available services

You can leverage Kubernetes service constructs to create highly available services in a mixed container and VM environment, and you can do it without the need for any external components. This approach can be very handy in small-footprint and edge deployments where container and VM workloads coexist. Good read!

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