MetalLB

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MetalLB offers a network load balancer implementation which workes on "bare metal" (as opposed to a cloud provider).

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://geek-cookbook.funkypenguin.co.nz/kubernetes/loadbalancer/metallb/
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Wondering if anyone is running into this issue when trying to deploy:

✗ HelmRelease reconciliation failed: unable to read values from key 'values.yaml' in ConfigMap 'metallb-system/metallb-helm-chart-value-overrides': error converting YAML to JSON: yaml: line 15: could not find expected ':'

I’ve tried several different YAML validation tools and techniques to resolve this error but I always continue to run into this. Can not figure out why (also still learning Flux so not everything is obvious to me at the moment).

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Nevermind, figured out it was a tab issue.

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I keep stumbling upon the error:

Kustomization/flux-system/metallb–metallb-system dry-run failed: failed to create typed patch object (flux-system/metallb–metallb-system; kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1, Kind=Kustomization): .spec.validation: field not declared in schema

What am I missing?

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Aah, this is due to a deprecation of the old Flux CRDs. I’ll update the recipe shortly - the fix is to remove the validation: server line from the Kustomization.

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And the recipe’s now up-to-date! :+1:

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Thank you for sharing this great article! I like your explanations and I feel I learn a lot.

However, I am getting this error message that I can not figure out how to solve:

✗ Kustomization reconciliation failed: IPAddressPool/metallb-system/metallb-pool dry-run failed: failed to get API group resources: unable to retrieve the complete list of server APIs: metallb.io/v1beta1: the server could not find the requested resource

I hope you can point me to the reason why the kustomization are failing.

Br Jesper

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Hey @jespernohr!

Flux is complaining that it can’t create MetalLB’s custom resources, because the CRDs don’t exist yet, because the helmrelease hasn’t installed yet.

Check this section in the recipe : MetalLB - Kubernetes Bare-Metal Loadbalancing |・∀・

Essentially you’ll want to end up with 2 directories at the root of your repo…

  1. metallb - HelmRelease goes in here
  2. metallb-config - CRs go in here

And you define 2 Kustomizations, so that the CRs in the config--metallb-system Kustomization are only applied after metallb itself is applied in the metallb--metallb-system Kustomization :slight_smile:

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These guides are extremely helpful for newbies like me. However. I am not understanding this section. I have used your template to create my repo and I don’t know where the copied “Values.yaml” is supposed to go in my repo, and then how do I (reference it I guess) in the “configmap-metallb-helm-chart-value-overrides.yaml”. Sorry for the dumb question. Just trying to understand how to use flux and also configure this metalLB. Thanks again!

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Based on the current way that recipe is written (I have an update pending), you’ll take the contents of the upstream values.yaml file, and paste it (indented 4 spaces) into your configmap, then make any necessary changes.

So you might end up with something like this:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: metallb-helm-chart-value-overrides
  namespace: metallb-system
data:
  values.yaml: |-  

    # Default values for metallb.
    # This is a YAML-formatted file.
    # Declare variables to be passed into your templates.

    imagePullSecrets: []
    nameOverride: ""
    fullnameOverride: ""
    <continued...>