kubernetes service external ip pending

Question

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.

so please help me to resolve this issue. Thanks ...

Answer 1

same issue:

os>kubectl get svc right-sabertooth-wordpress

NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S)
right-sabertooth-wordpress LoadBalancer 10.97.130.7 "pending" 80:30454/TCP,443:30427/TCP

os>minikube service list

|-------------|----------------------------|--------------------------------|

| NAMESPACE | NAME | URL |

|-------------|----------------------------|--------------------------------|

| default | kubernetes | No node port |

| default | right-sabertooth-mariadb | No node port |

| default | right-sabertooth-wordpress | http://192.168.99.100:30454 |

| | | http://192.168.99.100:30427 |

| kube-system | kube-dns | No node port |

| kube-system | tiller-deploy | No node port |

|-------------|----------------------------|--------------------------------|

It is, however,accesible via that http://192.168.99.100:30454.

Answer 2

If you are not on a supported cloud (aws, azure, gcloud etc..) you can't use LoadBalancer without MetalLB https://metallb.universe.tf/ but it's in beta yet..

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Following @Javier's answer. I have decided to go with "patching up the external IP" for my load balancer.

 $ kubectl patch service my-loadbalancer-service-name \
-n lb-service-namespace \
-p '{"spec": {"type": "LoadBalancer", "externalIPs":["192.168.39.25"]}}'

This will replace that 'pending' with a new patched up IP address you can use for your cluster.

For more on this. Please see karthik's post on LoadBalancer support with Minikube for Kubernetes

Not the cleanest way to do it. I needed a temporary solution. Hope this helps somebody.

Answer 5

When using Minikube, you can get the IP and port through which you can access the service by running minikube service kubia-http .

Answer 6

Check kube-controller logs. I was able to solve this issue by setting the clusterID tags to the ec2 instance I deployed the cluster on.