Porter is an open-source load balancer implementation designed for bare-metal Kubernetes clusters.
In cloud-based Kubernetes clusters, services are usually exposed by using load balancers provided by cloud vendors. However, cloud-based load balancers are unavailable in bare-metal environments. Porter allows users to create LoadBalancer services in bare-metal environments for external access, and provides the same user experience as cloud-based load balancers.
- BGP mode and Layer 2 mode
- ECMP routing and load balancing
- IP address pool management
- BGP configuration using CRDs
- Installation using Helm and KubeSphere
Without a bare-metal environment yet? Doesn't matter!
You can learn how to use Porter in a cloud-based Kubernetes cluster by following the Porter Documentation.
Porter is a sub-project of KubeSphere.
- Join us at the KubeSphere Slack Channel to get support or simply tell us that you are using Porter.
- You have code or documents for Porter? We ❤️ all sorts of contributions! You can build the Porter project and send us pull requests.
Porter is a promising newcomer in service proxy, which enriches the CNCF CLOUD NATIVE Landscape.
Porter is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.