How to Set Up MetalLB for Load Balancing on a Bare-Metal Kubernetes Cluster
Cloud-hosted Kubernetes clusters get load balancers automatically provisioned by AWS, GCP, or Azure the moment you request a LoadBalancer service. A homelab cluster running on your own hardware — like the Raspberry Pi K3s cluster covered in an earlier guide — has no such cloud provider to call, which is exactly the gap MetalLB for…