CNCF Project Demos | BGP Beyond Loadbalancers with MetalLB and FRR-K8s#
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 (London) digest Program Adjacent pick London · 1–4 April 2025
(Project Pavilion demo) — Adjacent
- Why: MetalLB's BGP engine (backed by FRR-K8s) moving beyond simple LoadBalancer-service advertisement into general BGP features on bare-metal clusters is a small but concrete signal of cloud-native networking absorbing more real routing-protocol capability.
- What: A demo of using MetalLB with FRR-K8s as a backend to add BGP features to Kubernetes clusters beyond basic LoadBalancer service advertisement to an on-prem fabric. (from abstract only)
- How: FRR-K8s (Free Range Routing wrapped for Kubernetes) backs MetalLB's evolved BGP engine, letting it speak more of BGP's feature surface to the on-prem fabric than the original simple advertisement model. (from abstract only)
- Where applicable: Bare-metal/on-prem Kubernetes needing BGP-based LoadBalancer integration; general for that deployment shape.