LoadBalancer

Truefoundry by default provisions a single external load-balancer for one Kubernetes cluster. This is provisioned automatically by the tfy-istio-ingress helm chart installed by Truefoundry which creates a Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer. You can see find the configuration of this service in Deployments > Helm > tfy-istio-ingress (Make sure you are filtering for the desired cluster)

You can click on the three dots to understand the configuration.

If you want to modify any of your load-balancer settings, you will have to edit this configuration according to the guide mentioned below.

Modifying your load balancer configuration

The loadbalancer can be modified using annotations on the gateway object. Below is an example of possible modifications that you can do. To get a complete list of annoations - check here

AWS

gateway:
  annotations:
    # Denotes that this is a network load balancer. We use NLB so that TCP protocol can also be 
    # supported. Also, NLB has lower latency and costs than ALB (Application Load Balancer)
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: nlb
    
    # This is the default setting - It makes the loadbalancer external. If you want to create an internal
    # load-balancer, you can remove this annotations
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: "external"
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-scheme: "internet-facing"

    # Use this only when you want to make the loadbalancer internal. Else remove this annotation
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-internal: "true"

    # ACM cert arn to attach to the load balancer. If you have your own custom certificate, then you can remove this annotation. 
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-cert: arn:aws:acm:us-east-2:XXXXXXX:certificate/XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXX
    
    # You can let these settings as it is
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-ports: https
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-alpn-policy: HTTP2Preferred
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol: tcp
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-cross-zone-load-balancing-enabled: "true"
tfyGateway:
  name: tfy-wildcard
  spec:
    servers:
      - tls:
          httpsRedirect: true
        port:
          name: http-tfy-wildcard
          number: 80
          protocol: HTTP
        hosts:
          - "*"
      - port:
          name: https-tfy-wildcard
          number: 443
          protocol: HTTP
        hosts:
          - "*"
    selector:
      istio: tfy-istio-ingress

As mentioned above, if you want the loadbalancer to be external, add the following annotation:

service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: "external"  
service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-scheme: internet-facing

If you want it to be external, the following annotation should be added:

service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-scheme: "internal"

If you convert the load balancer from internal to external or vice-versa, the loadbalancer will be recreated and you will have to remap your DNS.

GCP

The default configuration creates an external load-balancer:

gateway:
  tolerations:
  - key: "cloud.google.com/gke-spot"
    value: "true"
    effect: NoSchedule
    operator: Equal
  affinity:
    nodeAffinity:
      preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
      - weight: 1
        preference:
          matchExpressions:
          - key: cloud.google.com/gke-spot
            values:
            - "true"
            operator: In
tfyGateway:
  name: 'tfy-wildcard'
  spec:
    selector:
      istio: 'tfy-istio-ingress'
    servers:
    - hosts:
      - "*"
      port:
        name: http-tfy-wildcard
        number: 80
        protocol: HTTP
      tls:
        httpsRedirect: true
    - hosts:
      - "*"
      port:
        name: https-tfy-wildcard
        number: 443
        protocol: HTTP

To make the loadbalancer internal, add the annotation as follows:

gateway:
  annotations:
    networking.gke.io/load-balancer-type: "Internal"

Azure

The default configuration creates an external load balancer with the below configuration

gateway:
  tolerations:
  - key: CriticalAddonsOnly
    value: "true"
    effect: NoSchedule
    operator: Equal
tfyGateway:
  name: 'tfy-wildcard'
  spec:
    selector:
      istio: 'tfy-istio-ingress'
    servers:
    - hosts:
      - "*"
      port:
        name: http-tfy-wildcard
        number: 80
        protocol: HTTP
      tls:
        httpsRedirect: true
    - hosts:
      - "*"
      port:
        name: https-tfy-wildcard
        number: 443
        protocol: HTTP

To make the load balancer internal

gateway:
  annotations:
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-internal: "true"

Deploy multiple load balancers

Each installation of tfy-istio-ingress creates a load balancer. If you want to deploy multiple multiple load-balancers, for e.g. one internal and one external, you can clone the current tfy-istio-ingress application in the same namespace istio-system, change the tfyGateway.Name to something else other then default tfy-wildcard and update the tfyGateway.spec.Selector with the new name of the application.

For e.g. if you clone the tfy-istio-ingress a new application with the name tfy-istio-ingress-1 will be created , update the tfyGateway.Name to a new name and the tfyGateway.spec.Selector to

tfyGateway:
  spec:
    selector:
      app: "tfy-istio-ingress-1"

Once the ingress is installed, it will automatically create another loadbalancer whose IP you can get using kubectl get svc -n istio-system.

Add authentication to all services behind a load balancer

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