This is the official guide here from OpenEBS.
Step 1.) Make sure you have the right version.
As of this time 2025-04, we need Kubernetes/Microk8s version 1.23 or higher (note this will continue to increment higher).
Usually a good sign of having the wrong/old version is that you will encounter namespace and other errors:
error: unknown flag: --namespace........
haproxy is one of the best known and widely used Open Source load balancers out there and a strong competitor to nginx.
haproxy is used by many large sites per Wikipedia:
HAProxy is used by a number of high-profile websites including GoDaddy, GitHub,........