Ingresses and Load Balancers in Kubernetes with MetalLB and nginx-ingress

When it comes to exposing services from a Kubernetes cluster and making it accessible from outside the cluster, the recommended option is to use a load-balancer type service to redirect incoming traffic to the right pod. In a bare-metal cluster, using this type of service leaves the EXTERNAL-IP field of the service as pending, making it unavailable outside of the…