Expose traffic using Ingress Kubernetes

Question

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,

Answer 1

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.