I am trying to learn about amazon eks. I have created eks cluster along with the node group. Now i want to balance the load coming to worker nodes. Do i need to explicitly add the load balancer or master control manager will take care of it by itself
Kubernetes comes with kube proxy which provides L4 layer load balancing for replica pods deployed across multiple Kubernetes worker nodes. But if you want to have more sophisticated load balancing you can use an external LoadBalancer.
For load balancing the requests to Kubernets API Serve it's recommended to expose the the API Server endpoints to your clients via a Loadbalancer.