Implementing a load balancer for your Trend Vision One File Security Containerized Scanner provides several benefits:
- High Availability: Load balancers distribute traffic across multiple scanner instances, ensuring service continuity even if individual pods fail.
- Scalability: You can scale your scanner deployments while maintaining a single endpoint for clients.
- External Access: Load balancers provide a consistent external endpoint for ICAP clients outside your Kubernetes cluster.
- Traffic Management: You control how requests are distributed (e.g., round-robin, least connections) to optimize resource utilization.
Deployment Options
Trend has tested two deployment options:
- AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB):
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Ideal for EKS deployments
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Layer 4 (TCP) load balancing
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Handles millions of requests per second
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Preserves client source IP addresses
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Optional TLS termination for enhanced security
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- MetalLB:
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Ideal for on-premises or self-managed Kubernetes clusters
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Works where cloud load balancers aren't available
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Provides true LoadBalancer services in bare-metal environments
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Simple configuration with IP address pool allocation
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Compatible with existing network infrastructure
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