MetalLB in Kubernetes Baremetal Cluster

Question

I'm new to Kubernetes and was trying to expose my service (Nginx) via ingress resource. ingress controller is already installed via helm nginx-stable/nginx-ingress. when trying to access the said IP and port from the ingress resource. it is unreachable and by doing some research I saw that I need to install metalLB.

My question is do I really need to install MetalLB or are there any alternative built-in resources that I can configure or use to route the traffic?

Answer 1

in short, you don't necessarily need to install metalLB to make a simple kubernetes configuration work. perhaps you could share the services information or error log which is unreachable

Answer 2

Sorry for the delay due to holiday season..

I'm using Virtualbox with 3 machine running in

• Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

K8s Version

• Client Version: v1.20.1
• Server Version: v1.20.1

Enabling Ingress helm install my-release nginx-stable/nginx-ingress

Deployment kubectl describe deployment --namespace helm-exam

Name:                   node-deployment-1
Namespace:              helm-exam
CreationTimestamp:      Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:01:22 +0800
Labels:                 app=node-deployment-1
                        app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=Helm
Annotations:            deployment.kubernetes.io/revision: 1
                        meta.helm.sh/release-name: helm-deployment
                        meta.helm.sh/release-namespace: default
Selector:               app=node-deployment-1
Replicas:               3 desired | 3 updated | 3 total | 3 available | 0 unavailable
StrategyType:           RollingUpdate
MinReadySeconds:        0
RollingUpdateStrategy:  25% max unavailable, 25% max surge
Pod Template:
  Labels:  app=node-deployment-1
  Containers:
   nginx:
    Image:      nginx
    Port:       <none>
    Host Port:  <none>
    Environment:
      ENVIRONMENT:  DEV
    Mounts:         <none>
  Volumes:          <none>
Conditions:
  Type           Status  Reason
  ----           ------  ------
  Available      True    MinimumReplicasAvailable
  Progressing    True    NewReplicaSetAvailable
OldReplicaSets:  <none>
NewReplicaSet:   node-deployment-1-78dd8f445b (3/3 replicas created)
Events:          <none>

Service

kubectl describe svc --namespace helm-exam

Name:              node-service-1
Namespace:         helm-exam
Labels:            app=node-service-1
                   app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=Helm
Annotations:       meta.helm.sh/release-name: helm-deployment
                   meta.helm.sh/release-namespace: default
Selector:          app=node-deployment-1
Type:              ClusterIP
IP Families:       <none>
IP:                10.109.148.140
IPs:               10.109.148.140
Port:              <unset>  80/TCP
TargetPort:        80/TCP
Endpoints:         10.244.1.26:80,10.244.1.27:80,10.244.1.28:80
Session Affinity:  None
Events:            <none>

Ingress

kubectl describe ingress --namespace helm-exam

Name:             node-ingress
Namespace:        helm-exam
Address:          
Default backend:  default-http-backend:80 (<error: endpoints "default-http-backend" not found>)
Rules:
  Host            Path  Backends
  ----            ----  --------
  nginx.helm.com  
                  /   node-service-1:80 (10.244.1.26:80,10.244.1.27:80,10.244.1.28:80)
Annotations:      meta.helm.sh/release-name: helm-deployment
                  meta.helm.sh/release-namespace: default
Events:           <none>

kubectl get ingress --namespace helm-exam

NAME           CLASS    HOSTS            ADDRESS   PORTS   AGE
node-ingress   <none>   nginx.helm.com             80      8m57s

Ingress doesn't show or provide any IP ADDRESS