Google Container Engine with external IP, without load balancer

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I am able to connect to the app running in my pod in Kubernetes, but that was with a load balancer gateway, based on the documentation here:

https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/tutorials/http-balancer

Is there any way to run a web server on Google Container Engine without having to pay $18/month for a separate load balancer?

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google-cloud-platformgoogle-kubernetes-engine
Did you find a solution to avoid the GCE load balancer? – Srikanth
Check out serverfault.com/questions/801189/… – Jonathan Lin

1 Answers

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Try using type: Nodeport for the service. This will open a port on all your nodes. You can use then direct traffic to that port. Refer: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/