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Digital Ocean Kubernetes Load Balancer Configuration

At work I’m using Digital Ocean and their managed Kubernetes offering - DOKS

The cluster is almost entirely managed via Helm charts - and even system components that are installed via the Digital Ocean “1 Click” installers are Helm charts really.

Recently we ran into a problem where we needed real IP addresses available to our application - but these were being lost to the load balancer - and I needed to configure Proxy Protocol to re-enable them.

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