kubernetes guesbook example on aws - amazon-web-services

Question

I'm trying to run through the kubernetes example in AWS. I created the master and 4 nodes with the kube-up.sh script and trying to get the frontend exposed via a load balancer.
Here are the pods
root#ip-172-20-0-9:~/kubernetes# kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
frontend-2q0at 1/1 Running 0 5m
frontend-5hmxq 1/1 Running 0 5m
frontend-s7i0r 1/1 Running 0 5m
redis-master-y6160 1/1 Running 0 53m
redis-slave-49gya 1/1 Running 0 24m
redis-slave-85u1r 1/1 Running 0 24m
Here are the services
root#ip-172-20-0-9:~/kubernetes# kubectl get services
NAME CLUSTER_IP EXTERNAL_IP PORT(S) SELECTOR AGE
kubernetes 10.0.0.1 <none> 443/TCP <none> 1h
redis-master 10.0.90.210 <none> 6379/TCP name=redis-master 37m
redis-slave 10.0.205.92 <none> 6379/TCP name=redis-slave 24m
I edited the yml for the frontend service to try to add a load balancer but its not showing up
root#ip-172-20-0-9:~/kubernetes# cat examples/guestbook/frontend-service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: frontend
labels:
name: frontend
spec:
# if your cluster supports it, uncomment the following to automatically create
# an external load-balanced IP for the frontend service.
type: LoadBalancer
ports:
# the port that this service should serve on
- port: 80
selector:
name: frontend
Here the commands i ran
root#ip-172-20-0-9:~/kubernetes# kubectl create -f examples/guestbook/frontend-controller.yaml
replicationcontroller "frontend" created
root#ip-172-20-0-9:~/kubernetes# kubectl get services
NAME CLUSTER_IP EXTERNAL_IP PORT(S) SELECTOR AGE
kubernetes 10.0.0.1 <none> 443/TCP <none> 1h
redis-master 10.0.90.210 <none> 6379/TCP name=redis-master 39m
redis-slave 10.0.205.92 <none> 6379/TCP name=redis-slave 26m
If I remove the loadbalancer it loads up but with no external IP

Answer 1

Looks like the external IP might only be there for Google's platform. in AWS it creates a ELB and doesn't show the external IP of the ELB.