good morning everyone! does anyone know if the load balanced frontends we create in GKE as a service are charged separately by GCP? I can't find pricing info on that

if you’re talking about services with

LoadBalancer

type, there are charged separately AFAIK

interesting, thank you @prehistoric-activity-61023

you can declare multiple ingress resources

I'll take your word for it until I do some more reading 🙂

in other words, in case of using some ingress controller, it usually looks like this: • 1 x load balancer service for handling incoming connections • N ingress resources defining different routes (based on path prefix, domain etc.)

right, so there's an internal load balancer that shares the load between replicas for a k8s service and then ingress rules define which lb the traffic ends up on?

Give it a try on a fresh GKE instance, so you can check it yourself: • install https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/deploy/#gce-gke • usage https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/user-guide/basic-usage/ Keep in mind that you might be forced to explicitly set

ingressClassName

to

nginx

. Otherwise, default ingress controller will handle it (and that might be Google Load Balancer).

very good! reading up on GKE vs nginx ingress