---
title: "The Time Linkerd Erased My Load Balancer"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-time-linkerd-erased-my-load-balancer-lk8wlhapd
source_url: https://matduggan.com/the-time-linkerd-erased-my-load-balancer/
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-05-03T20:06:46.076Z
updated: 2026-06-04T02:14:07.634Z
tags: ["gateway-api", "helm", "infrastructure", "kubernetes"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# The Time Linkerd Erased My Load Balancer

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A cautionary tale of using Gateway API and Linkerd in a Kubernetes environment. The author shares their experience with transitioning from Ingress to Gateway API, encountering issues with high volume of requests and experiencing a CRD conflict with Linkerd.

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