LB-IPAM works seamlessly with Cilium BGP: the IP addresses allotted by Cilium can be marketed to BGP friends to integrate your cluster with the remainder of your network. While you deploy a L2 Announcement Coverage, Cilium will start responding to ARP requests from local shoppers for ExternalIPs and/or LoadBalancer IPs. Typically, this might have required a tool like MetalLB but Cilium now natively helps this performance - and shortly after we released this new characteristic within the early 1.14 releases, we heard from users that had eliminated MetalLB entirely. Customers who had beforehand relied on MetalLB for comparable performance discovered that they could completely remove MetalLB from their setups. The simplified networking supplied by Cilium 1.14 allowed for a extra streamlined, efficient, and unified Kubernetes environment. Cilium 1.14's L2 Announcements feature is a sport-changer for Kubernetes networking, providing a native, efficient, and simplified solution for handling ARP requests for ExternalIPs and LoadBalancer IPs. The power to remove MetalLB fully additional streamlines the networking course of and reinforces Cilium's position as a number one mission within the Kubernetes ecosystem. Embrace the ability of Cilium 1.14 and revolutionise your Kubernetes networking expertise!