IP Addresses

TIP

Code for the initial wbstack.com setup is availbile in the deploy repo gce/ip directory (opens new window). However we would recommend that you setup resources like this using Terraform.

An IP was acquired from Google cloud for use with wbstack.com

gcloud compute addresses create main-web-static-ip-us-east1 --project=wbstack --region=us-east1-b

This will create a known public static IP address, that will not disappear unless deliberately deleted.

Question: Why not just allow the LoadBalancer of the Kubernetes cluster to claim an IP when created?

It seemed more certain that the IP address would not be lost if it was created as a separate step and assigned to the LoadBalancer after.