Project Lightning Talk: What's New in k8gb: CNCF's Multicluster Global Balancer

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k8gb is a Kubernetes-native global service load balancer that updates DNS from cluster health via a GSLB CRD and operator-to-operator sync, avoiding no dedicated management cluster. It uses CoreDNS + ExternalDNS to delegate zones to providers like Route 53, Infoblox, RFC2136 and supports strategies (failover, round‑robin, weighted, geoip). Project is 5 years old, 4 years in CNCF sandbox, 961 GitHub stars, GCP DNS gateway API and docs overhaul planned for Q2.

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