By lewislbr
I’ve recently created a managed Kubernetes cluster, deployed several services with a custom ingress, and I could access correctly the app at the IP provided by the ingress service.
Then I found out a load balancer was created automatically by DigitalOcean, and thinking I already had the ingress I didn’t need it so I deleted it. Now the app is no longer accessible.
I don’t really understand the connection between the cluster and the load balancer.
- Should a managed cluster always have a DigitalOcean load balancer?
- I see the cost of a managed cluster starts at 10/month. Is the cost of the load balancer included?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi there,
As the load balancer is a separate resource, it is billed separately.
In case that you have a Kubernetes service created with type LoadBalancer, for example:
spec:
type: LoadBalancer
selector:
app: nginx-example
ports:
- name: http
protocol: TCP
port: 80
targetPort: 80
Once you apply this to your cluster, this will automatically spin up a Managed DigitalOcean Load Balancer under your account.
For more information, I could suggest taking a look at the first answer here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-does-one-point-a-domain-to-a-kubernetes-cluster
Regards, Bobby
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