Advanced L2 configuration

Limiting the set of nodes where the service can be announced from

In L2 mode, only one node is elected to announce the IP from.

Normally, all the nodes where a Speaker is running are eligible for any given IP.

There can be scenarios where only a subset of the nodes are exposed to a given network, so it can be useful to limit only those nodes as potential entry points for the service IP.

This is achieved by using the node selector in the L2Advertisement CR.

In this example, NodeA and NodeB are exposed to the subnet A, whereas node C is exposed to subnet B.

In order to limit the set of nodes for a given advertisement, the node selector must be set:

apiVersion: metallb.io/v1beta1
kind: L2Advertisement
metadata:
  name: example
spec:
  ipAddressPools:
  - first-pool
  nodeSelectors:
  - matchLabels:
      kubernetes.io/hostname: NodeA
  - matchLabels:
      kubernetes.io/hostname: NodeB

apiVersion: metallb.io/v1beta1
kind: L2Advertisement
metadata:
  name: example
spec:
  ipAddressPools:
  - second-pool
  nodeSelectors:
  - matchLabels:
      kubernetes.io/hostname: NodeC

In this way, all the IPs coming from first-pool will be reacheable only via NodeA and NodeB, and only one of those node will be choosen to expose the IP.

On the other hand, IPs coming from second-pool will be exposed always via NodeC.