Alex Berg
Alex Berg
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Well-written post! Thanks for crafting it! I’ve come to the same conclusion.

You can create a small VM on GCP, install a load balancing software (e.g. nginx) on it, configure it to point to your cluster, and give that VM a static IP, yeah.

The downsides, however, are huge:

  • Your whole cluster goes down if that VM goes down and managing a HA load balancer is time-consuming and complicated.
  • If the VM is recreated, it might have a different name and you’ll have to manually reconfigure the LB or the static IP.
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