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# Free Kubernetes Load Balancers with Tailscale

**[Lee Briggs](https://daily.dev/sources/leebriggs)** · 9 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn how to expose Kubernetes workloads to the world without a load balancer using Tailscale. Tailscale allows you to access Kubernetes workloads using native Service and Ingress objects without paying for cloud provider load balancers.

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Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#tailscale](https://daily.dev/tags/tailscale)

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