Porter is an open-source load balancer implementation designed for bare-metal Kubernetes clusters.

In cloud-based Kubernetes clusters, services are usually exposed by using load balancers provided by cloud vendors. However, cloud-based load balancers are unavailable in bare-metal environments. Porter allows users to create LoadBalancer services in bare-metal environments for external access, and provides the same user experience as cloud-based load balancers.

• BGP mode and Layer 2 mode
• ECMP routing and load balancing
• IP address pool management
• BGP configuration using CRDs
• Installation using Helm and KubeSphere

Without a bare-metal environment yet? Doesn't matter!

You can learn how to use Porter in a cloud-based Kubernetes cluster by following the Porter Documentation.

Porter is a sub-project of KubeSphere.

• Join us at the KubeSphere Slack Channel to get support or simply tell us that you are using Porter.
• You have code or documents for Porter? We ❤️ all sorts of contributions! You can build the Porter project and send us pull requests.

    

Porter is a promising newcomer in service proxy, which enriches the CNCF CLOUD NATIVE Landscape.

Porter is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.