gRPC Loadbalancing in GKE using Nginx Ingress Controller

Published in FAUN.dev() 🐾 | 4 min read

This article covers:

• Why gRPC load balancing is challenging
• Client-side vs Server-side load balancing approaches
• Step-by-step implementation with Nginx Ingress Controller
• Configuring TLS termination for gRPC services
• Round-robin traffic distribution demonstration
• Private cluster considerations

Key Topics:

• Setting up Nginx Ingress Controller in GKE
• Configuring NodePort services for gRPC
• Essential ingress annotations for gRPC
• Testing load balancing behavior

Full implementation with code examples available on GitHub.

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