Set static external IP for my load balancer on GKE - kubernetes

Question

I am trying to set up a static external IP for my load balancer on GKE but having no luck. Here is my Kubernetes service config file:
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: myAppService
spec:
selector:
app: myApp
ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 3001
targetPort: 3001
type: LoadBalancer
loadBalancerIP: *********
This doesn't work. I expect to see my external IP as ********* but it just says pending:
➜ git:(master) kubectl get services
NAME CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
kubernetes ********* <none> 443/TCP 5m
myAppService ********* <pending> 3001:30126/TCP 5m
More details:
➜ git:(master) kubectl describe services
Name: kubernetes
Namespace: default
Labels: component=apiserver
provider=kubernetes
Annotations: <none>
Selector: <none>
Type: ClusterIP
IP: *********
Port: https 443/TCP
Endpoints: *********
Session Affinity: ClientIP
Events: <none>
Name: myAppService
Namespace: default
Labels: <none>
Annotations: <none>
Selector: app=myApp
Type: LoadBalancer
IP: *********
Port: <unset> 3001/TCP
NodePort: <unset> 30126/TCP
Endpoints:
Session Affinity: None
Events:
FirstSeen LastSeen Count From SubObjectPath Type Reason Message
--------- -------- ----- ---- ------------- -------- ------ -------
5m 20s 7 service-controller Normal CreatingLoadBalancer Creating load balancer
5m 19s 7 service-controller Warning CreatingLoadBalancerFailed Error creating load balancer (will retry): Failed to create load balancer for service default/myAppService: Cannot EnsureLoadBalancer() with no hosts
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I've encountered the same problem, but after reading the docs carefully, it turned out that I was just reserving the static IP incorrectly.
A service of type LoadBalancer creates a network load balancer, which is regional. Therefore, also the static IP address you reserve needs to be regional also (in the regoin of your cluster).
When I changed to this solution, everything worked fine for me...

Answer 2

This got me stuck as well, I hope someone finds this helpful.
In addition to what Dirk said, if you happen to reserve a global static IP address as oppose to a regional one; you need to use Ingres as describe here in documentation: Configuring Domain Names with Static IP Addresses specifically step 2b.
So basically you reserve the static ip gcloud compute addresses create helloweb-ip --global
and add an Ingres:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: helloweb
# this is where you you add your reserved ip
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.global-static-ip-name: helloweb-ip
labels:
app: hello
spec:
backend:
serviceName: helloweb-backend
servicePort: 8080
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: helloweb-backend
labels:
app: hello
spec:
type: NodePort
selector:
app: hello
tier: web
ports:
- port: 8080
targetPort: 8080
The doc also describe how to assign a static ip if you choose type "LoadBalancer" under step 2a.