Ansible Role: Kubernetes MetalLB

This role installs the MetalLB software load balancer in a Kubernetes cluster.

Requirements

You need a working Kubernetes cluster.

Role Variables

This role can install either the configmap-based MetalLB version 0.12.1 or the CRD-based version 0.13.x.

# Choose MetalLB version for the load balancer (v0.13.9 | v0.12.1)
metallb_version: "v0.13.9"

# For the older configmap-based versions, the last version is v0.12.1
# metallb_version: "v0.12.1"

# IP addresses for services needing a load balancer
# This example shows a range of five IP addresses
metallb_start: 10.100.24.48
metallb_end: 10.100.24.52

# URL to get MetalLB manifests for v0.13x versions
metallb_v13_url: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metallb/metallb/{{ metallb_version }}/config/manifests"

# URLs for MetalLB manifests for v0.12.x version
metallb_v12_base_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metallb/metallb/v0.12.1/manifests
metallb_v12_namespace_url: "{{ metallb_v12_base_url }}/namespace.yaml"
metallb_v12_metallb_url: "{{ metallb_v12_base_url }}/metallb.yaml"

Dependencies

There are no dependencies.

Example Playbook

# ===========================================================================
# Install MetalLB L2 load balancer
# ===========================================================================
- name: Install MetalLB load balancer
  hosts: k8s_master
  become: true

  roles:
    - jedimt.kubernetes_metallb

License

MIT

Author Information

Aaron Patten
aaronpatten@gmail.com