Question
Kubernetes Load Balancer sends traffic to all nodes? Even those without a web service!?
- Posted on November 4, 2022
- DigitalOcean Managed KubernetesDigitalOcean Managed Load BalancersKubernetesLoad Balancing
Asked by Marco Colli
I have:
- a Deployment “web” scaled to 3 replicas
- a Service of type LoadBalancer that routes traffic to it
- 4 nodes on the cluster
Now from the DO dashboard I see that the LoadBalancer says “Accepting traffic” for all 4 nodes! How is that possible? At most 3 different nodes have a web process (I have only 3 replicas).
Is this normal/correct? Is it a bug in DigitalOcean? Or should I fix something in my configuration?
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Hi there,
I believe that this is normal, as later on if you scale your pods to 5 for example, the Load balancer needs to be able to proxy the traffic to all nodes.
Do you get any timeout errors when visiting your app?
Best,
Bobby