Service external IP pending on kubernetes hosted on jelastic

Question

I have installed my kubernetes cluster on Jelastic. Now, I tried to define a service of LoadBalancer type and would like it to be provided with an external IP. The external IP is currently marked as pending. What should I do to make it non-pending? Do I have to provide the worker nodes with an external IPv4?

In my current setup, my worker nodes have no IPv4 because I put an nginx load-balancer in front of the cluster:

The IPv4 is set on the nginx node. Is that a problem? If I want to access my loadbalancer service inside of my kubernetes cluster, what should I do?

Answer 1

For LoadBalancer service type to work, the cloud provider must implemenet the relevant APIs to get it to work.

With regard to Jelastic, as per their docs, they don't support it https://docs.jelastic.com/kubernetes-exposing-services/:

Jelastic PaaS does not support the LocaBalancer service type currently.