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Updated MetalLB recipe for CRDs

Prior to v0.13, MetalLB was configured using a ConfigMap. This has all changed now, and CRDs are required to perform configuration (which improves syntax checking, abong other things)

MetalLB offers a network load balancer implementation which works on "bare metal" (as opposed to a cloud provider).

MetalLB does two jobs:

  1. Provides address allocation to services out of a pool of addresses which you define
  2. Announces these addresses to devices outside the cluster, either using ARP/NDP (L2) or BGP (L3)