Clarify Ingress load balancer

Question

I\'m not sure how load balancing works with Ingress.
If I understand correctly, what happens is actually something like this:

I fail to see how the loa

Answer 1

The ClusterIP services themselves perform load balancing. The naming can be confusing as LoadBalancer services are not the only services that involve load balancing - LoadBalancer actually means something more like 'cloud provider please create an external load balancer and point it at this service'. The kubernetes ClusterIP services also load-balance across Pods in different Nodes using the kube-proxy. If you don't want kubernetes to do load balancing then you have to specifically disable it by creating a headless service.