To deploy traefik on GKE with whoami service Run the following command (you may run it again if you get error for the first time as some custom resources take some time to get created) kubectl apply -f . Get the public IP of Treafik-Service $ kubectl get service NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE kubernetes ClusterIP 10.109.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 31m traefik LoadBalancer 10.109.10.37 35.188.102.17 80:30541/TCP,443:32703/TCP,8080:31141/TCP 84s whoami ClusterIP 10.109.10.217 <none> 80/TCP 84s Dashboard HTTP Routers HTTP Services HTTP Middlewares Accessing whoami service