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 kube-router
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 Kube-router is a distributed load balancer, firewall and router for Kubernetes. Kube-router can be configured to provide on each cluster node:
 
 - a IPVS/LVS based service proxy on each node for *ClusterIP* and *NodePort* service types, providing service discovery and load balancing