Option to use native Kubernetes load-balacing at global level

[prajithp13]

Welcome!

• Yes, I've searched similar issues on GitHub and didn't find any.
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What did you expect to see?

Currently, Traefik forwards incoming traffic directly to pods, bypassing native Kubernetes services. However, when utilizing service meshes to manage cluster traffic from Ingress to pods, it is necessary to forward the traffic to meshed Kubernetes services. Currently, the option to achieve this behavior involves setting nativeLB at the Ingressroute level. It would be beneficial if there were an option to specify this at the provider level, especially when dealing with large production clusters, eliminating the need to consistently set this parameter at the route level.

[nmengin]

Hey @prajithp13,

Thanks for your suggestion.

We are interested in this issue, but we’re unsure about the use case and the traction it will receive. We are going to leave the status as kind/proposal to give the community time to let us know if they would like this idea.

We will reevaluate as people respond.

Conversation is time-boxed to one month.

[prajithp13]

This feature might be required only for those who use Service Mesh with Traefik. Can we consider this?

[nmengin]

Hey @prajithp13,

IMO it can be useful for other use cases

For instance, when the Kubernetes cluster has many pods starting and shutting down often, using the native load balancer allows Traefik to refer to the K8S Service IP instead of the pods IP and thus avoid 502 errors (we have already helped people with such an issue).

[prajithp13]

@nmengin Yes right 👍