Deployment
This is part of the Charmed MetalLB Tutorial. Please refer to this page for more information and the overview of the content.
Deploy Charmed MetalLB
To deploy Charmed MetaLB, all you need to do is
The best way to deploy MetalLB in Layer 2 mode on Charmed Kubernetes is with the MetalLB charm, which activates both the metallb controller Deployment and metallb speaker DaemonSet.
Run the following command, which will fetch the charm from Charmhub and deploy it to your model:
juju deploy metallb --channel 1.28/stable --trust
Juju will now fetch Charmed MetalLB and begin deploying it to the Kubernetes cluster. This process can take several minutes depending on how provisioned (RAM, CPU, etc) your machine is. You can track the progress by running:
juju status --watch 1s
This command is useful for checking the status of Charmed MetalLB and gathering information about the containers hosting Charmed MetalLB. Some of the helpful information it displays include IP addresses, ports, state, etc. The command updates the status of Charmed MetalLB every second and as the application starts you can watch the status and messages of Charmed MetalLB change. Wait until the application is ready - when it is ready, juju status will show:
Model Controller Cloud/Region Version SLA Timestamp
juju-metallb overlord k8s-cloud/default 3.1.5 unsupported 13:32:58-05:00
App Version Status Scale Charm Channel Rev Address Exposed Message
metallb active 1 metallb 1.28/stable 9 10.152.183.85 no
Unit Workload Agent Address Ports Message
metallb/0* active idle 192.168.0.15
To exit the screen with juju status --watch 1s, enter Ctrl+c.
If you want to further inspect juju logs, can watch for logs with juju debug-log.
More info on logging at juju logs.