GKE container-native load balancing enables Google Cloud load balancers to target Pods directly, rather than the VMs that host them, and to evenly distribute their traffic. Product manager Ines Envid and staff software engineer Neha Pattan explain how.

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Links from the interview

GKE container-native load balancing:
- Launch blog post
- Documentation
Configuring services with an annotation to preserve source IP
VPC-native clusters with Alias IPs
Network Endpoint Groups

GKE Container-Native Load Balancing, with Ines Envid and Neha Pattan

Kubernetes Podcast from Google