The problem with kube-vip is that it has poor documentation. I have read it many times and still don't know how I could use it. Last time I was running something assigning IP addresses to the dedicated server interface I got it null routed and provider threatened to terminate the service because it was interfering with other clients network. So if I see things like ARP, BGP, DHCP it is not clear what exactly it does on the network and how that would work in the real world. I am missing an example where I have a server with a static IP from which I want to access the exposed services that are on a private network. All I really want is an automatically configured reverse proxy that will direct traffic to appropriate services and take care of certificates and DNS.

Before the Kubernetes I used Rancher 1.6 and that was super simple. For instance I would start a wordpress container and then all I needed to do was to add a reverse proxy entry with its hostname as a backend and point where the certificates are (that was before lets encrypt).

Closest I could get was exposing a NodePort and having nginx to reverse proxy to the nodes at given port, but that seems more complex / fragile, as I need o keep track which service uses which port and it is still manual, so I might as well just use containers without Kubernetes.