I am new to Kubernetes. I followed Kubernetes the hard way from Kesley Hightower and also this to set up Kubernetes in Azure. Now all the services are up and running fine. But I am not able to expose the traffic using Load balancer. I tried to add a Service object of type LoadBalancer but the external IP is showing as <pending>. I need to add ingress to expose the traffic.
nginx-service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx-service
name: nginx-service
spec:
type: LoadBalancer
externalIPs:
- <ip>
ports:
- name: "80"
port: 80
targetPort: 80
- name: "443"
port: 443
targetPort: 443
selector:
app: nginx-service
Thank you,
By default, the solution proposed by Kubernetes The Hard Way doesn't include a solution for LoadBalancer. The fact it's pending forever is expected behavior. You need to use out-of-the box solution for that. A very commonly used is MetalLB.
MetalLB isn't going to allocate an External IP for you, it will allocate a internal IP inside our VPC and you have to create the necessary routing rules to route traffic to this IP.