Docs for common service load balancer via annotations (#576)
Document how a simple load balancer can be achieved through annotations on the commonServiceOptions.
Co-authored-by: Samuel Verstraete <samuel.verstraete@ontoforce.com>
diff --git a/docs/solr-cloud/solr-cloud-crd.md b/docs/solr-cloud/solr-cloud-crd.md
index 634a497..2fb54bd 100644
--- a/docs/solr-cloud/solr-cloud-crd.md
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@@ -151,6 +151,19 @@
If you are using an `Ingress` for external addressability, you can customize the created `Ingress` through `SolrCloud.spec.customSolrKubeOptions.ingressOptions`.
Under this property, you can set custom `annotations`, `labels` and an `ingressClassName`.
+**Note:** If you have no need for an `Ingress` or a specific hostname to address your SolrCloud cluster you can create a simple loadbalancer that can be addressed from outside the kubernetes cluster. To achieve this you can add annotations to `SolrCloud.spec.customSolrKubeOptions.commonServiceOptions.annotations`. Exposing the headlessService is an option as well through `SolrCloud.spec.customSolrKubeOptions.headlessServiceOptions.annotations`, mind that using the headless service requires a load balancing implementation in the client calling the SolrCloud api.
+Snippet below shows you can create an NLB on AWS:
+
+```yaml
+spec:
+ customSolrKubeOptions:
+ commonServiceOptions:
+ annotations:
+ service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: external
+ service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-nlb-target-type: ip
+ service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-scheme: internet-facing
+```
+
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