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Inlets Operator

Brings LoadBalancers with public IPs to local Kubernetes clusters by creating VMs and running inlets Pro tunnel servers.

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Field note

What it does

The inlets-operator creates VMs and runs an inlets Pro tunnel server for you, attaching the VM's public IP to the cluster and running an inlets client Pod. It uses a Tunnel CRD to manage tunnels.

Capabilities

Available capabilities

LoadBalancer Provisioning Kubernetes integration Tunnel Management

Annotated Only Mode

When set to true, only services annotated with operator.inlets.dev/manage=1 are managed.

Install via Arkade

Can be installed using arkade, an open-source Kubernetes marketplace.

Automatic Public IP Attachment

Automatically attaches the VM's public IP to the cluster and writes it to LoadBalancer services.

Multi-Cloud Provider Support

Supports DigitalOcean, AWS EC2, GCE, Hetzner, Azure, and Linode for creating tunnel servers.

Tunnel Custom Resource Definition (CRD)

Uses a CRD called Tunnel (tunnels.operator.inlets.dev) to create and manage tunnels.

Install via Helm

Can be installed using Helm for power users.