external loadbalancer service is in pending state always

[deepakpal-in]

Describe the bug
I am trying to do a POC for optscale and finding it difficult to setup as documentation is not correct completely.
At location https://github.com/hystax/optscale/tree/integration#get-ip-access-https , below command is giving EXTERNAL-IP as pending always.

kubectl get services --field-selector metadata.name=ngingress-nginx-ingress-controlle

To Reproduce

Follow below readme.md
https://github.com/hystax/optscale/tree/integration#get-ip-access-https

Expected behavior
up and running k8s cluster with optscale installed and accessible

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• OS: Ubuntu20.04

Additional context
Do we need to add some cloud-provider kind of option. if yes, how we can configure that in the provided optscale code.

[deepakpal-in]

Any update on this, nothing is working out.?

[harriseldon]

I am just doing a flyby, but ...
It looks like you are running on k8s. K8s requires a LoadBalancer service to provide external IP addresses. Is is through minikube?

It seems like minikube solves this with

minikube tunnel

It also looks like MetalLB is an option as well. https://metallb.org/

I did a search online and found this Stack Overflow that tries to address the problem.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44110876/kubernetes-service-external-ip-pending

If this does work, it still seems like the documentation needs some updating on how to do this with k8s or a kubernetes cluster that does not come with an built-in load balancer like those provided on cloud kubernetes instances.