Hi there,

I am trying to set up a Loadbalancer/Nginx-ingress. Everything works good so far.
But there is one Problem. Following some tutorials and hints on DO a recommended setting for the loadbalancer is externalTrafficPolicy: Local. With this set the DO-Loadbalancer fails Health-Checks.

What I researched so far is when I switch to Cluster (health checks work then), I will loose the client IP and maybe get an additional hop inside the cluster and also the LB maybe forwards traffic to a node with less or no pods, but the ingress will route correctly.

With my current setup everything works quite good and I also have the forwarded headers with the correct IP but I wonder if setting externalTraffic to cluster will impact performance and scaling.

Any hints on this would be great, even if the answer is that it is currently not possible :)

loadbalancer:

apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: ingress-nginx
  namespace: ingress-nginx
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: ingress-nginx
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: ingress-nginx
  annotations:
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/do-loadbalancer-enable-proxy-protocol: 'true'
spec:
  externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
  type: LoadBalancer
  selector:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: ingress-nginx
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: ingress-nginx
  ports:
    - name: http
      port: 80
      protocol: TCP
      targetPort: http
    - name: https
      port: 443
      protocol: TCP
      targetPort: https

nginx-ingress:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ingress-name
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: 'nginx'
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/from-to-www-redirect: 'true'
spec:
  tls:
    - hosts:
        - www.some-domain.com
        - some-domain.com
      secretName: some-cert
  rules:
    - host: www.some-domain.com
      http:
        paths:
          - backend:
              serviceName: service-name
              servicePort: 3000

and the ingress config map:

kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: nginx-configuration
  namespace: ingress-nginx
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: ingress-nginx
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: ingress-nginx
data:
  proxy-hide-headers: 'Server'
  server-tokens: 'False'
  use-forwarded-headers: 'true'
  compute-full-forwarded-for: 'true'
  use-proxy-protocol: 'true'