Minikube: LoadBalancer Service has pending IP address

[Industrial]

Hi!

I have read https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/2834 but that does not solve my issue:

When I run kubectl expose deployment test-deployment-nginx --type=LoadBalancer --name=nginx-example

and then look at the services with kubectl get svc then:

NAME            TYPE           CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)        AGE
kubernetes      ClusterIP      10.96.0.1     <none>        443/TCP        23h
nginx-example   LoadBalancer   10.96.11.32   <pending>     80:31378/TCP   3h10m

You can see it does not get an external IP.

For this reason the minikube service nginx-example does not work. I get a connection error.

[dvdmuckle]

minikube does not come with anything that can spin up a service type of LoadBalancer. You can install something like metallb to enable this. https://metallb.universe.tf/tutorial/minikube/

[afbjorklund]

@dvdmuckle : minikube tunnel does provide a LoadBalancer, but for some reason it's not working here

[tstromberg]

@Industrial - What happens when you run minikube tunnel?

[tstromberg]

Also, do you mind providing the full output of minikube service nginx-example - you mentioned it returns a connection error.

[tstromberg]

@balopat - Mind chiming in here? Is the normal state for a service until the tunnel is started?

[Industrial]

The solution is to use minikube tunnel. This was not apparent for me following guide, docs, etc, up to the point of making the ticket.

[BenedictAdamson]

minikube does not come with anything that can spin up a service type of LoadBalancer.

And I guess even doing minikube addons enable ingress does not spin up that service, either (?)