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by topspin 1657 days ago
Are ALB/NLB employed to handle traffic between pods in the same cluster? Or have I misunderstood the whole discussion?

My take on the 'eBPF will help solve service mesh' proposal is that it deals with not only ingress/egress traffic (where ALB/NLB are typically employed) but all traffic, including traffic between pods in a cluster. This is where my interests lay.

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> Are ALB/NLB employed to handle traffic between pods in the same cluster?

You can choose to do so, or you can communicate directly via the built-in Kubernetes service discovery and CNI overlay network. There are use cases for both.