good morning everyone does anyone know if the load balanced

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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

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

if you re talking about services with `LoadBalancer` type there are charged separately AFAIK

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

every `LoadBalancer` service will reserve a public IP address and create a forwarding rule for the pricing check <https cloud google com vpc network pricing> and part Load balancing and forwarding rules

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

if you want to make it cheaper I strongly suggest installing some ingress controller like <https kubernetes github io ingress nginx > so you can create one service exposing it = pay for 1 forwarding rule and route the incoming traffic internally via ingress definitions

sparse-butcher-73713 · Answer

interesting thank you < prehistoric activity 61023>

sparse-butcher-73713 · Answer

< prehistoric activity 61023> how do you then keep a service s infrastructure separate since you re affecting a shared resource the ingress

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

you can declare multiple ingress resources

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

ingress nginx controller and other similar solutions will take care of it

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

I hope that answers your question

sparse-butcher-73713 · Answer

I ll take your word for it until I do some more reading slightly smiling face

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

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

sparse-butcher-73713 · Answer

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

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

Give it a try on a fresh GKE instance so you can check it yourself install 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

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

Yep I think you got it quite right

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

Are you familiar with nginx

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

Ingress nginx controller actually observes the k8s resources ingresses and based on their specs it updates the nginx configuration so it can properly route the requests It s that simple wink

sparse-butcher-73713 · Answer

very good reading up on GKE vs nginx ingress

sparse-butcher-73713 · Answer

< prehistoric activity 61023> any idea where I can find an example to create the ingress itself not the rule on gke

sparse-butcher-73713 · Answer

I found this which describes only the rule <https www pulumi com docs guides crosswalk kubernetes app services >

sparse-butcher-73713 · Answer

OMG it s further up

sparse-butcher-73713 · Answer

sorry confused