Reliable Global Service Load Balancing

without vendor lock-in

K8GB

Yury Tsarev

K8GB (Kubernetes Global Balancer) is an open-source project that provides a global traffic management solution for Kubernetes clusters. It is designed to simplify the configuration and management of DNS-based traffic routing for multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes deployments.

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✅ Open Source CNCF Sandbox project https://www.k8gb.io/�

✅ Running on Kubernetes Clusters exposing single Gslb CRD

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✅ No Management Cluster needed

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✅ No Single Point Of Failure (using DNS protocol, distributed by design)

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✅ Multiple load balancing strategies

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✅ Designed to handle high impact regional failures

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✅ Application (pod-status) aware GSLB (Global Service Load Balancing)

What is K8GB

Handle Regional Failures with Ease

Simple Way to Control Global Traffic

Gslb custom resource

or standard Ingress annotations

Multiple Integrations

✅ K8GB is architected to run on top of any CNCF-conformant K8s cluster and Ingress controller (Gateway support coming)

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✅ Operates in any on-prem, cloud or hybrid scenarios

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✅ Supported external DNS providers for full zone delegation automation:

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✅ AWS Route53

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✅ Azure Public DNS

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✅ NS1

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✅ Infoblox

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✅ Cloudflare

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✅ RFC2136 implementations (e.g. Bind/Windows DNS)

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Project Status

✅ CNCF Sandbox��✅ Incubating proposal is planned for this year

�✅ 3 public adopters

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✅ 2 times finalist of CNCF Security Slam

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✅ Perfect CLOMonitor score�

✅ Maintainers from Absa, Upbound, Kedify

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✅ Contributors from Millennium bcp, Tetrate

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Learn More!

✅ Visit us at www.k8gb.io

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✅ Try K8GB in your environment

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✅ Drop any question to #k8gb CNCF slack channel

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✅ ⭐ Star us in GitHub! :) github.com/k8gb-io/k8gb

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✅ Add your organization to ADOPTERS.md

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✅ Join our first ever k8gb Contribfest session Friday @ 11:00

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