K8s expose LoadBalancer service giving external-ip pending - amazon-web-services

Question

I've created a Kubernetes cluster with AWS ec2 instances using kubeadm but when I try to create a service with type LoadBalancer I get an EXTERNAL-IP pending status
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 123m
nginx LoadBalancer 10.107.199.170 <pending> 8080:31579/TCP 45m52s
My create command is
kubectl expose deployment nginx --port 8080 --target-port 80 --type=LoadBalancer
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
What I expect to see is an EXTERNAL-IP address given for the load balancer.
Has anyone had this and successfully solved it, please?
Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to setup the interface between k8s and AWS which is aws-cloud-provider-controller.
apiVersion: kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: InitConfiguration
nodeRegistration:
kubeletExtraArgs:
cloud-provider: aws
More details can be found:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/cloud-providers/
https://blog.heptio.com/setting-up-the-kubernetes-aws-cloud-provider-6f0349b512bd
https://blog.scottlowe.org/2019/02/18/kubernetes-kubeadm-and-the-aws-cloud-provider/
https://itnext.io/kubernetes-part-2-a-cluster-set-up-on-aws-with-aws-cloud-provider-and-aws-loadbalancer-f02c3509f2c2
Once you finish this setup, you will have the luxury to control not only the creation of AWS LB for each k8s service with type LoadBalancer.. But also , you will be able to control many things using annotations.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: example
namespace: kube-system
labels:
run: example
annotations:
service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-cert: arn:aws:acm:xx-xxxx-x:xxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxx/xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx #replace this value
service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol: http
spec:
type: LoadBalancer
ports:
- port: 443
targetPort: 5556
protocol: TCP
selector:
app: example
Different settings can be applied to a load balancer service in AWS using annotations.

Answer 2

To Create K8s cluster on AWS using EC2, you need to consider some configuration to make it work as expected.
that's why your service is not exposed right with external IP.
you need to get the public IP of the EC2 instance that your cluster used it to deploy Nginx pod on it and then edit Nginx service to add external IP
kubectl edit service nginx
and that will prompt terminal to add external IP:
type: LoadBalancer
externalIPs:
- 1.2.3.4
where 1.2.3.4 is the public IP of the EC2 instance.
then make sure your security group inbound traffic allowed on your port (31579)
Now you are ready to user k8s service from any browser open: 1.2.3.4:31579