Porter, a load balancer developed for bare metal Kubernetes cluster, was officially included in CNCF Landscape—marking it as an important solution for developers.

Porter, a load balancer developed for bare metal Kubernetes clusters, was officially included in CNCF Landscape last week. This marks a great milestone for KubeSphere community that has designed Porter. As Porter is now recognized by CNCF as one of the best cloud-native practices, it represents another important solution to load balancing for developers.

LoadBalancer in the Kubernetes cluster can be used to expose backend workloads externally. Cloud providers often offer cloud LoadBalancer plugins, which requires the cluster to be deployed on a specific IaaS platform. However, many enterprises often deploy the Kubernetes cluster on bare metal, especially when it is used for the production environment. For the local bare metal cluster, Kubernetes does not provide LB implementation. Porter is an open source load balancer designed specifically for the bare metal Kubernetes cluster, which serves as an excellent solution to this problem. It is also included in CNCF Landscape.

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