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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/cloudnativelabs/kube-router.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/cloudnativelabs/kube-router)
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Kube-router is a distributed load balancer, firewall and router for Kubernetes
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clusters. It gives your cluster a unified control plane for features
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that would typically be provided by two or three separate software projects.
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Kube-router is a distributed load balancer, firewall and router for Kubernetes. Kube-router can be configured to provide on each cluster node:
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- a IPVS/LVS based service proxy on each node for *ClusterIP* and *NodePort* service types, providing service discovery and load balancing
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- an ingress firewall for the pods running on the node as per the defined Kubernetes network policies using iptables and ipset
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- a BGP router to advertise and learn the routes to the pod IP's for cross-node pod-to-pod connectivity
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## Project status
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*kube-router does it all.*
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With all features enabled, kube-router is a lean yet powerful alternative to
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several software components used in typical Kubernetes clusters. All this from a
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several network components used in typical Kubernetes clusters. All this from a
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single DaemonSet/Binary. It doesn't get any easier.
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### Alternative to kube-proxy | `--run-service-proxy`
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### IPVS/LVS based service proxy | `--run-service-proxy`
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kube-router uses the Linux kernel's IPVS features to implement its K8s Services
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Proxy. This feature has been requested for some time in kube-proxy, but you can

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