Accessing the Cluster: Understanding the Protocol

In this lesson, we will figure out how the different components in our cluster are communicating with each other and what we need to establish our communication with the worker nodes.

Exploring the AWS ELB

We need a way to access the cluster. So far, we saw that we can, at least, interact with the Kubernetes API. Every time we executed kubectl, it communicated with the cluster through the API server. That communication is established through AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). Let’s take a quick look at it.

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