This article is more than one year old. Older articles may contain outdated content. Check that the information in the page has not become incorrect since its publication. Many new gRPC users are surprised to find that Kubernetes's default load balancing often doesn't work out of the box with gRPC. For example, here's what happens when you take a simple gRPC Node.js microservices app and deploy it
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