If you use a statefulset, there is no load balancing, regardless of bare metal or cloud. Every pod has a DNS record you can use to address all other pods, and i

If you use a statefulset, there is no load balancing, regardless of bare metal or cloud. Every pod has a DNS record you can use to address all other pods, and it's carried over in case of a pod failure. Are you looking for a load balancer or not? If you are, as the other person mentioned, you can use the nginx one.