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Fine-Tuning Control Plane Access with Cluster API

Scott Lowe

When Cluster API creates a workload cluster, it also creates a load balancing solution to handle traffic to the workload cluster’s control plane. For flexibility, Cluster API provides a limited ability to customize this control plane load balancer. 0 to the control plane load balancer.

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Creating a Talos Linux Cluster on Azure with Pulumi

Scott Lowe

Next, it creates a load balancer, gets a public IP address for the load balancer, and creates the associated backend address pool, health probe, and load balancing rule. This load balancer is used only for Kubernetes API traffic.) The Talos machine configuration is passed to the VMs at startup.

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Kubernetes Port Names and Terminating HTTPS Traffic on AWS

Scott Lowe

I recently came across something that wasn’t immediately intuitive with regard to terminating HTTPS traffic on an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) when using Kubernetes on AWS. The post references the use of an ACM certificate, but I suspect it’s not limited to ACM certificates. kind : Service. ports : - name : http.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

We also made it easy for customers to leverage multiple Availability Zones to architect the various layers of their applications with a few clicks on the AWS Management Console with services such as Amazon Elastic Load Balancing , Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

According to Martin, the term SDN originally referred to a change in the network architecture to include a) decoupling the distribution model of the control plane from the data plane; and b) generalized rather than fixed function forwarding hardware. What about virtualized load balancers? Or virtualized firewalls?

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How to Achieve PCI Compliance in AWS?

Galido

PCI SSC uses this term to refer to the risk that a third-party entity poses to the cardholder data with regard to the volume of the data, previous breaches, and connections to the original vendor. How Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Helps. The compliance requirements allow the merchants to transfer the risk to other third parties.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Also less obvious is domain 4, where the encryption of data in transit is handled by upstream services, such as reverse proxies and load balancers, an enterprise web portal and a file transfer service. In terms of numbers of requirements, the load on the business unit assessments is significantly reduced.

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