2025-03-31 –, The Nash
Load Balancing is a critical aspect of modern cloud deployments, and it’s especially tricky and misunderstood in hybrid environments that span across public clouds and private datacenters on premise. Designing a future-proof solution that is scalable, robust, fast and includes automatic failovers for different disaster cases, is a challenge we need to tackle. Therefore, our evaluation focused on two base technologies: Multi-Cluster Meshes and DNS based Global Load Balancing.
Join us on our journey of evaluating the two CNCF projects Cilium and K8GB against real-world scenarios with complex multi-cloud deployments. Learn about the benefits, challenges and trade-offs you should expect when choosing a hybrid cloud strategy with Kubernetes!
A practical live demo will share our hands-on experience, pros and cons, alongside use-case-specific solution recommendations for your hybrid-cloud journey.
Load Balancing has been a household name in the CNCF ecosystem and Kubernetes for a long time, but most approaches don’t have multi-cluster or hybrid-cloud application load balancing in the focus. As the CNCF ecosystem already offers options for it, the talk focuses on reporting practical experience of a Kubernetes end user company project with large-scale requirements. The challenge involves a diverse application zoo that has grown over 30 years and the transition to cloud native within the next few years.
In combination with requirements from the German financial market regulation institute, a scalable multi- and hybrid-cloud approach for global load balancing is required for the next-gen Kubernetes clusters. The comparison between a multi-cluster mesh solution and DNS-based solution from the CNCF ecosystem will give a deeper understanding about pros and cons of the different technical approaches. If you ever wanted to harness the powers of DNS and cluster meshes to keep your applications up and running smoothly across the public cloud and private data centers, this talk is for you.
Nicolai Ort is a Cloud Platform Engineer at DATEV, a German software house and IT service provider specializing in solutions for tax consultants, auditors and lawyers. He is an advocate for using and contributing to open-source technologie. Nicolai has gained experience across various roles across the IT industry, including software development, platform architecture and infrastructure operations.