Session 1: Load Balancer – Delivering Data To Your Cluster Your Kubernetes cluster is ready, but without data flowing in, it’s just an empty shell. So how does that data actually find its way to the cluster? In this hands-on session, we explore how modern load balancing ensures efficient, scalable, and reliable delivery, whether it’s HTTP traffic, secure TLS connections, or day-two operations. Get practical experience configuring key load balancing features and understanding how traffic is distributed, secured, and observed in real-world scenarios. What You’ll Learn: Weighted and persistent backends Authentication TLS termination and passthrough Scaling out LB status Logging Observability Watch to master the first step in the story of data: getting it to your Kubernetes cluster with speed, reliability, and precision. In this session we take you through the Load Balancer Lab.