MetalLB

A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols

MetalLB was accepted to CNCF on September 14, 2021 at the Sandbox maturity level.

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Health Score

Healthy (78)

Total contributors

1,035

-15% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

317

-11% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

744

-20% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

128

+7% vs. previous year

Software Value

$9.4M

First commit

November 7, 2017

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