---
id: networking-metallb-loadbalancer
name: "MetalLB LoadBalancer (service.type=LoadBalancer)"
description: >-
  Installs MetalLB, configures an IPAddressPool + L2Advertisement whose CIDR is inside the kind Docker bridge subnet, deploys the product chart with service.type=LoadBalancer, and verifies that MetalLB assigns an external IP from the pool and the LB endpoint serves HTTP 200.
labels: {customer: any, profile: loadbalancer}
cluster:
  provider: kind
  k8s_version: v1.30.0
  preinstall:
    - kind: helm
      chart: metallb/metallb
      version: 0.16.1
      release: metallb
      namespace: metallb
      repo:
        name: metallb
        url: "https://metallb.github.io/metallb"
      values:
        controller:
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "50m"
              memory: "64Mi"
        speaker:
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "50m"
              memory: "64Mi"
        installCRDs: true
      wait: pods-ready
      wait_timeout: 3m
    - kind: raw_manifest
      path: ./fixtures/metallb-ip-pool.yaml
      namespace: metallb
product:
  chart: ./chart
  release: sample
  namespace: sample
  set:
    image.repository: "public.ecr.aws/nginx/nginx"
    image.tag: "1.27-alpine"
    service.type: "LoadBalancer"
asserts:
  - type: helm-status-deployed
    release: sample
    namespace: sample
  - type: pods-ready
    namespace: sample
    timeout: 5m
  - type: pods-ready
    namespace: metallb
    timeout: 5m
  - type: smoke-script
    path: chart-test/assertions/metallb-loadbalancer.sh
tags: [nightly, curated-live]
mechanisms: ['addon:metallb']
category: networking
integration: metallb
tier: live