Project maturity

MetalLB is currently in alpha.

Adoption

MetalLB is being used in at least 1 non-critical production cluster, and is stable there. However, it has not been “battle tested” by many people yet.

If you use it today, you’ll be an early adopter and may encounter more issues than usual. Please file bugs! We want to hear from you and address pain points.

Test coverage

The codebase has some test coverage, but it it’s still sorely lacking in important places. Empirical testing shows that the common codepaths work properly, but edge cases may have bugs.

Increasing test coverage is an active area of work.

Configuration format

The configuration format was grown organically during the prototyping phase, and may change in backwards-incompatible ways as the project is refactored to support routing protocols other than BGP.

Release notes during alpha will highlight any required changes to configuration when upgrading between versions.

Documentation

Documentation exists, but hasn’t been battle-tested by many readers unfamiliar with the project. As such, it may be incomplete or confusing in parts.

If you find shortcomings in the documentation, please file bugs! Your perspective is very valuable, and we want to hear about what works and what doesn’t.