Explore load balancer support on VMC

[frapposelli]

vSphere does not come with a load balancer facility out of the box, but when running in VMC (a.k.a. VMware on AWS) we have access to the ELB service provided by AWS.

This issue should track an exploratory effort to scope the feasibility and the work needed to bring support for ELB in cloud-provider-vsphere.

/kind feature
/assign @akutz

[embano1]

This exploration could be used to push VCP zones phase 2 implementation forward which is dealing with stretched clusters. We have some thoughts on how to address it, but non of it is ideal as all of the have some drawbacks when it comes to node label drift.

Subscribing here to follow the conversation.

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[sflxn]

We're going to need this AND a general solution outside of VMC for cluster api, v1alpha1. If I'm not mistaken, HA support (as implemented in kubeadm) requires a load balancer.

[frapposelli]

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[smazurov]

I really do want to see if this can be addressed as either part of this provider or otherwise.

[frapposelli]

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[frapposelli]

this is going to be important for CAPV.