The Great LoadBalancer Debate of 2:13 AM


It started innocently enough. My friend Govind and I were debugging our Kubernetes setup when he dropped this bombshell:

"Bro, my LoadBalancer is provisioned by Digital Ocean. It's not a K8s LoadBalancer service."

I stared at my screen. It was 2:13 AM. My brain was running on pure chai.

"Are you sure...