About

kube-vip is an open-source project that aims to simplify providing load balancing services for Kubernetes clusters.

Why kube-vip

The original purpose of kube-vip was to simplify the building of highly-available (HA) Kubernetes clusters, which at the time involved a few components and configurations that all needed to be managed. This was blogged about in detail by thebsdbox here. Since the project has evolved, it can now use those same technologies to provide load balancing capabilities for Kubernetes Service resources of type LoadBalancer.