Deploying Avi Load Balancer

VMware Avi Load Balancer is formerly VMware NSX Advanced Balancer. Telco Cloud Platform uses Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO) to deploy Avi Service Engines for load balancing needs. The Avi Load Balancer deployment involves creating an Avi Service Engine (SE) that is programmed through Avi Controller to advertise Virtual IP Address (VIP) to upstream Routers using BGP and to forward requests backend to the underlying Kubernetes Pod.

Avi Load Balancer can be configured to load balance (L4-L7) across container workloads (CNFs) by deploying an ingress controller known as AKO and leveraging the standard Ingress API in the Telco Cloud Automation CaaS Clusters.

Note: VMware Avi Load Balancer is supported only in VMware Telco Cloud Platform Advanced Edition.