Introduction¶
About Equinix Labs¶
Equinix Labs offers workshops, proof of concepts, and tools for exploring and bootstrapping Equinix digital infrastructure including Fabric, Metal, and Network Edge.
About the workshop¶
The goals of this workshop are:
- Become familiar with Equinix Metal Load Balancers inside our Kubernetes integrations
- Provision a Cluster API based cluster using bare metal servers with an Equinix Metal Load Balancer in front of its control plane nodes.
- Configure Cloud Provider Equinix Metal to be able to deploy serviced based load balancers inside your kubernetes cluster.
- Deploy a simple NGINX service and expose it using the Equinix Metal Load Balancer.
Workshop agenda¶
This workshop is split into four parts:
| Part | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Account and API Key Setup | 10 minutes |
| 2 | LBaaS with CAPP | 30 minutes |
| 3 | LBaaS with CPEM | 20 minutes |
| 4 | Conclusion | 2 minutes |