Key features

We have learned that Magnum provides various features in addition to the management of COE infrastructure in the previous section. In the following sections, we will talk about some of the advanced features present in Magnum.

External load balancer for Kubernetes

Magnum uses Flannel by default to provide networking for the resources in Kuberenetes. The pods and services can access each other and the external internet using this private container networking. However, these resources can't be accessed from an external network. To allow access from the external network, Magnum provides the support for setting up an external load balancer for a Kubernetes cluster.

Note

Please refer to https://docs.openstack.org/magnum/latest/user/#steps-for-the-cluster-administrator to set up a Kubernetes load balancer using Magnum.

Transport Layer Security

Magnum allows us to set up secure communication between a cluster's services and the outside world using TLS. The TLS communication in Magnum is employed...