Virtual node support for pod readiness gates

When Container Engine for Kubernetes provisions an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure load balancer or network load balancer for a Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer, you can now specify a pod readiness gate to control traffic.

Specifying a pod readiness gate ensures traffic is only routed to pods on virtual nodes that have both been successfully added to the backend set, and that are ready to receive traffic.

For more information, see Specifying Pod Readiness Gates.