LB-IPAM works seamlessly with Cilium BGP: the IP addresses allotted by Cilium will be advertised to BGP friends to integrate your cluster with the rest of your network. Once you deploy a L2 Announcement Policy, Cilium will start responding to ARP requests from local clients for ExternalIPs and/or LoadBalancer IPs. Usually, this may have required a device like MetalLB but Cilium now natively supports this functionality - and shortly after we launched this new feature in the early 1.14 releases, we heard from customers that had eliminated MetalLB totally. Users who had beforehand relied on MetalLB for comparable functionality discovered that they might fully take away MetalLB from their setups. The simplified networking supplied by Cilium 1.14 allowed for a more streamlined, environment friendly, and unified Kubernetes atmosphere. Cilium 1.14's L2 Announcements feature is a sport-changer for Kubernetes networking, offering a local, environment friendly, and simplified solution for dealing with ARP requests for ExternalIPs and LoadBalancer IPs. The power to take away MetalLB entirely additional streamlines the networking course of and reinforces Cilium's position as a number one mission in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Embrace the facility of Cilium 1.14 and revolutionise your Kubernetes networking expertise!