Unable to find a approach to using LoadBalancer on mac m1/2

[zesiar0]

I have tried the following two guides, but it's still not working for me
https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/loadbalancer/
https://www.thehumblelab.com/kind-and-metallb-on-mac/

So is it any ways to use LoadBalancer on mac m1/m2 ?

[ashraf-minhaj]

I also tried MetalLb (mac m1) but as it seems (from forums I read) docker does not expose it's network on mac. That's why it's not possible. Still looking for ideas to implement load balancers in my local machine.

[kundan2707]

On macOS and Windows, docker does not expose the docker network to the host. Because of this limitation, containers (including kind nodes) are only reachable from the host via port-forwards, however other containers/pods can reach other things running in docker including loadbalancers. You may want to check out the Ingress Guide as a cross-platform workaround. You can also expose pods and services using extra port mappings as shown in the extra port mappings section of the Configuration Guide.

[BenTheElder]

Also very rough and WIP: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-kind, theoretically eventually this may bridge that gap.

If you use metallb on a mac you'll be limited to interacting with it from within the docker VM because of limits in docker networking, as noted int he guide.

More recently there is this suggestion #3448 but we haven't had a chance to review it