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MetalLB and BGP: LoadBalancer Services on Bare Metal

May 15, 2026 · 7 min read

Cloud gives you LoadBalancer Services for free; bare metal does not. MetalLB in BGP mode advertises Service IPs to your routers for real ECMP load balancing — how to configure the pools, peers, and advertisements, and why BGP mode beats L2.

#kubernetes #bgp #networking

Kubernetes Networking with Cilium: From CNI to Service Mesh

May 12, 2026 · 8 min read

Cilium replaces the kube-proxy iptables mess with an eBPF dataplane, adds identity-based network policy up to L7, and gives you Hubble for flow visibility. How it works and how to reason about policy that follows pods, not IPs.

#kubernetes #networking #ebpf

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