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A lot of the CNI/load balancer stuff was added as band aid for applications that don't cooperate nicely with k8s. Applications that act "native" and don't need

• dijit 2y ago
  Wait? you can run kubernetes with no CNI? My clusters have never even been able to register nodes as healthy without one. Maybe I’m doing it wrong?
  • p_l 2y ago
    TL;DR - today the CNI itself is interface to network implementation, so you'd need a minimal one. But you do not need a "complex" CNI. Originally k8s pretty much worked with assumption you can route few subnets in good old static way to the cluster and that's it, and it works with that kind of approach still - each node gets a /24, there's a separate shared /24 (or more) for services, etc. The complexities came from the fact that a lot of places that wanted to deploy kubernetes couldn't provide such a simple network infrastructure to hosts, then later what was a workaround got equipped with various extra bells&whistles