Use Pulse Virtual Traffic Manager to route traffic to Kubernetes pods

Pulse Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) v18.1 introduced new Service Discovery mechanism to help with situations where vTM sits in front of an application made up from dynamic components.

Many organisations are now either use or experimenting with Kubernetes (K8s). Let’s see if we can get this Service Discovery mechanism to help us expose an application running on K8s to the Internet:

• In a way that works both in public clouds and on-prem;
• Supports session persistence and per-pod health checks;
• Can scale really well; and
• Is highly available*.

*The above assumes that you operate a production-grade HA cluster of vTMs somewhere where they can reach your K8s nodes running your application pods.