This section continues from the previous section - make sure you do the tutorial in sequence.
In-Cluster Load Balancer
A Kubernetes Service acts as an internal L4 load balancer only accessible from within the same Kubernetes Cluster. See the Service section for more information.
Internal Network Load Balancer
The setup of the Internal Network Load Balancer is similar to the External Network Load Balancer, but with an additional annotation.
Service YAML
In k8s/service.yaml, use the cloud.google.com/load-balancer-type annotation to mark the service to use the Internal Network Load Balancer:
k8s/service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: helloworld
annotations:
# Indicate this is an Internal Network Load Balancer
cloud.google.com/load-balancer-type: "Internal"
labels:
app: helloworld
spec:
ports:
- name: 8080-8080
port: 8080
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 8080
selector:
app: helloworld
# Use LoadBalancer type instead of ClusterIP
type: LoadBalancer
Internal Static IP
You can assign an internal static IP address to the Network Load Balancer.
Update the k8s/service.yaml to pin the Load Balancer IP address:
k8s/service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: helloworld
annotations:
cloud.google.com/load-balancer-type: "Internal"
labels:
app: helloworld
spec:
ports:
- name: 8080-8080
port: 8080
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 8080
selector:
app: helloworld
type: LoadBalancer
# Replace the value with the IP address you reserved
loadBalancerIP: RESERVED_IP_ADDRESS
Internal HTTP(s) Load Balancer
The setup of the Internal Network Load Balancer is similar to the External HTTP(s) Load Balancer, but with an additional annotation.
Service YAML
In the k8s/service.yaml, use the cloud.google.com/neg annotation to enable Network Endpoint Group (NEG) in order to use container-native load balancing:
k8s/service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: helloworld
labels:
app: helloworld
# Add the NEG annotation to enable Network Endpoint Group
# in order to use container-native load balancing
annotations:
cloud.google.com/neg: '{"ingress": true}'
spec:
ports:
- name: 8080-8080
port: 8080
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 8080
selector:
app: helloworld
type: ClusterIP
Ingress YAML
Create a Kubernetes Ingress configuration that will create the HTTP Load Balancer. Create a k8s/ingress.yaml, but also use kubernetes.io/ingress.class annotation to indicate this is an Internal HTTP(s) Load Balancer
k8s/ingress.yaml
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: helloworld
annotations:
# Add the Ingress Class annotation to use Internal HTTP(s) Load Balancer
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "gce-internal"
spec:
rules:
- http:
paths:
- path: /*
backend:
serviceName: helloworld
servicePort: 8080