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Version: 1.3.0

Provision of External IP for LoadBalancer service type in Kubernetes​

Some local kubernetes platforms do not have the ability to provide external IP address when you create a kubernetes service with LoadBalancer service type. The following steps will enable this ability for different local kubernetes platforms. Follow these steps before installing epinio.

K3s/K3d​

  • Provision of LoadBalancer IP is enabled by default in K3s/K3d.

Minikube​

See Install Epinio on Minikube on how to configure minikube.

Kind​

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metallb/metallb/v0.9.5/manifests/namespace.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metallb/metallb/v0.9.5/manifests/metallb.yaml
kubectl create secret generic -n metallb-system memberlist --from-literal=secretkey="$(openssl rand -base64 128)"

SUBNET_IP=`docker network inspect kind | jq -r '.[0].IPAM.Config[0].Gateway'`
## Use the last few IP addresses
IP_ARRAY=(${SUBNET_IP//./ })
SUBNET_IP="${IP_ARRAY[0]}.${IP_ARRAY[1]}.255.255"

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  namespace: metallb-system
  name: config
data:
  config: |
    address-pools:
    - name: default
      protocol: layer2
      addresses:
      - ${SUBNET_IP}/28
EOF

MicroK8s​

  • Install and configure MetalLB
INTERFACE=`ip route | grep default | awk '{print $5}'`
IP=`ifconfig $INTERFACE | sed -n '2 p' | awk '{print $2}'`
microk8s enable metallb:${IP}/16

Digital Ocean​

When installing Epinio on Rancher-provisioned RKE2 or RKE1 clusters on Digital Ocean, you might see this error message:

error installing Epinio:
timed out waiting for LoadBalancer IP on traefik service
Ensure your kubernetes platform has the ability to provision a LoadBalancer IP address.

In this case you need to configure RKE/RKE2 with an external cloud provider as this one.