# Physical L4 Load Balancing into Clusters

**URL:** <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/physical-l4-load-balancing-into-clusters/19223>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** loadbalancer, network\
**Created:** [March 1, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/physical-l4-load-balancing-into-clusters/19223 "2022-03-01T18:26:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![joshsaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@joshsaul](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/joshsaul)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/physical-l4-load-balancing-into-clusters/19223/1 "2022-03-01T18:26:12Z")

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[@CNCF](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/groups/cncf) recently published this excellent article describing the different options for how to load balancing traffic to your ingress/nodeports/service:lb.

> **[A Cloud-Like On-Prem Load Balancer for Kubernetes? - Netris](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/02/21/a-cloud-like-on-prem-load-balancer-for-kubernetes/)**
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> Kubernetes Load Balancer for On-Prem Private Clouds - a cloud-like automatic networking service for k8s clusters

Pretty good read and there are a number of k8s friendly options in there.