Kubernetes service external ip pending

Pankaj Jackson picture Pankaj Jackson · May 22, 2017 · Viewed 129.1k times · Source

I am trying to deploy nginx on kubernetes, kubernetes version is v1.5.2, I have deployed nginx with 3 replica, YAML file is below,

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: deployment-example
spec:
  replicas: 3
  revisionHistoryLimit: 2
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx:1.10
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80

and now I want to expose its port 80 on port 30062 of node, for that I created a service below,

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: nginx-ils-service
spec:
  ports:
    - name: http
      port: 80
      nodePort: 30062
  selector:
    app: nginx
  type: LoadBalancer

this service is working good as it should be, but it is showing as pending not only on kubernetes dashboard also on terminal. Terminal outputDash board status

Answer

Javier Salmeron picture Javier Salmeron · May 22, 2017

It looks like you are using a custom Kubernetes Cluster (using minikube, kubeadm or the like). In this case, there is no LoadBalancer integrated (unlike AWS or Google Cloud). With this default setup, you can only use NodePort or an Ingress Controller.

With the Ingress Controller you can setup a domain name which maps to your pod; you don't need to give your Service the LoadBalancer type if you use an Ingress Controller.