The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kubernetes Global Balancer (K8gb) as a CNCF incubating project . K8gb is an open source, cloud native Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) solution designed specifically for Kubernetes . It solves the critical challenge of ensuring application availability and disaster recovery across multiple Kubernetes clusters and geographical regions. By leveraging standard Kubernetes APIs, CoreDNS and external DNS, K8gb automates traffic management and ensures seamless failover capabilities.
Since K8gb was accepted as a CNCF sandbox project in March 2021, the project has seen a multitude of accomplishments and has solidified its role in global traffic management. K8gb has seen significant adoption across global organizations in both fintech and cloud consulting, including Portugal’s largest privately owned bank, Millennium bcp . By adopting K8gb, the bank enhanced their digital banking resiliency, dramatically reducing their recovery times and now holds a 99. 99% service uptime across critical banking applications. K8gb continues to show healthy community engagement and interest with an LFX Insights Health Score of 72 out of 100.
The Health Score evaluates a project's overall trustworthiness across four major domains: development, contributors, security, and popularity. Since its start in the CNCF sandbox, K8gb has 239 contributors with 73% contributing quarter over quarter and 105 contributing organizations. It has also earned 1197 GitHub stars and has had 149 GitHub forks, a 71% increase over the past year. Additionally, LFX Insights estimates the value of software to be more than $2M. "The K8gb community is proud to see the project advance to incubation status. Our goal has always been to simplify GSLB for the Kubern