Originally published at woitzik.dev
Cloud Kubernetes clusters get LoadBalancers for free. You create a Service of type LoadBalancer, and within seconds your cloud provider hands you a public IP. On a bare-metal K3s cluster running on Proxmox VMs, that request hangs in <pending> forever.
This is the first thing that breaks every homelab Kubernetes setup. MetalLB fixes it — but wiring it up correctly with Traefik and ArgoCD has a few non-obvious steps.
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Why <pending> Happens
