How to reuse DO LoadBalancer previously created through Kubernetes?

November 15, 2018 2.2k views
Load Balancing Kubernetes
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dennisstr

Hi,

when creating a Kubernetes cluster and using a load balancer to host any public service, its easy to imagine that there would be anything going terribly wrong with the cluster. In that case I would like to create a new cluster and reuse the LoadBalancer to still have the same Public IP has before. Is there a possibility to request a specific load balancer name to be reused within the service definition? Or is elastic ip support for LoadBalancers planned?

This would increase fix possibilities in cases where there are infrastructure issues.

Dennis

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  • tapanhalani October 14, 2019
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    Any updates on this issue? We need to use some way of fixing the public ip of nginx-ingress controller, so that even on re-installing helm chart after purging, we don’t need to make changes to DNS records.

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tylerdo November 16, 2018

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for your question. I’m Tyler, the product manager for our Load Balancer product. At this point in time, it’s not possible to re-use an existing LB. It has to be generated as a new LB in order to get registered in k8s properly and things to be routed correctly. This wouldn’t be impossible, per se, but it’s not something we’re looking to add soon, unfortunately.

I will say that we are considering working on adding floating IP support to Load Balancers, which completes part of your request. This would be something that would likely happen in mid-2019.

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dennisstr November 19, 2018

Thank you for the transparency.

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jonaskello April 10, 2019

I have the same situation, wanting to reuse existing loadbalancer when rebuilding cluster, or at least reuse the same public IP. Could we get an update on how the work is going with adding floating IP support to Load Balancers?

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jnoble July 25, 2019

@tylerdo Any updates on floating IP support for Load Balancers?

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CaBeTuX August 26, 2019

Hi! Any news about this? We have the same situation here, we need re-use an created load balancer and don’t see the possibility to attach a Floating IP at Load Balancers.

Thanks!

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tpo September 4, 2019
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roxanaprops October 26, 2019

Any progress on this, please? We’re facing the same issue.

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lintuxt October 26, 2019

Hi, I’m analyzing k8s infrastructure in DO to start using it as a permanent solution. I’m facing this issue now and it doesn’t look good to not be able to reuse a previous IP address. If the cluster has any issues and there’s a need to regenerate it (or maybe there’s a need to do a cleanup), the traffic will be “dead” until DNS change takes effect for the new load balancer. Is there any fix planned for this situation?

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