GKE container-native load balancing enables Google Cloud load balancers to target Pods directly, rather than the VMs that host them, and to evenly distribute their traffic. Product manager Ines Envid and staff software engineer Neha Pattan explain how.

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Chatter of the week

• Adam meets Orlando
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News of the week

• GKE Private Clusters are GA
• Announcing Cloud NAT and Container-Native Load Balancing
• Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes now supports dynamic admission controllers
• Fast Kubernetes development with Skaffold 0.16.0
• New Cloud Foundry support for Kubernetes
• Managing Kubernetes from O’Reilly; sign up for a free e-book version courtesy of Heptio
• Days of Kubernetes 1.12 Past: Volume snapshots, RuntimeClass and topology-aware volume provisioning
• Kubedex: GKE vs EKS vs AKS vs IKS vs ACCSK
• New Relic acquires Coscale

Links from the interview

• GKE container-native load balancing:
  • Launch blog post
  • Documentation
• Configuring services with an annotation to preserve source IP
• VPC-native clusters with Alias IPs
• Network Endpoint Groups