The LoadBalancer service
LoadBalancer services are a very interesting service to explain because this service relies on the cloud platform where the Kubernetes cluster is provisioned. For it to work, it is thus required to use Kubernetes on a cloud platform that supports the LoadBalancer service type.
For cloud providers that offer external load balancers, specifying the type field as LoadBalancer configures a load balancer for your Service. The creation of the load balancer occurs asynchronously, and details about the provisioned balancer are made available in the .status.loadBalancer field of the Service.
Certain cloud providers offer the option to define the loadBalancerIP. In such instances, the load balancer is generated with the specified loadBalancerIP. If the loadBalancerIP is not provided, the load balancer is configured with an ephemeral IP address. However, if you specify a loadBalancerIP on a cloud provider that does not support this feature, the provided loadBalancerIP is...