Section 5: Setting Up High Availability for the Control Plane

In this section, you will learn how to mplement load balancing for the control plane API, set up redundancy using tools like Keepalived or HAProxy, and verify high availability.

This is the 5th section of the guide Building a production-ready Kubernetes cluster from scratch. Make sure you have completed the previous section before continuing here. The full list of lessons in the guide can be found in the overview.

Lessons

• Lesson 15: Configuring Load Balancing for the Control Plane

  Discuss the importance of load balancing for the control plane in a Kubernetes cluster and guide you through choosing and configuring a suitable load balancer.

• Lesson 16: Testing Control Plane High Availability

  Test and verify the high-availability configuration of your Kubernetes control plane.

Getting Started

To get started with the section, head over to the first lesson in this section to learn how to configure load balancing for the Kubernetes API server.