How do you set a static IP address for a Google Container Engine (GKE) service?

Question

A little bit of background: I have a Go service that uses gRPC to communicate with client apps. gRPC uses HTTP2, so I can't use Google App Engine or the Google Cloud HTTP Load Balancer. I need raw TCP load balancing from the internet to my Go application.

I went through the GKE tutorials and read the various docs and I can't find any way to give my application a static IP address. So how do you get a static IP attached to something running in GKE?

Answer 1

This is not supported in kubernetes v1.0.x but in v1.1.x it will be available as service.spec.loadBalancerIP. As long as you actually own that IP we will use it.