How to publicly expose Traefik ingress controller on Google Cloud Container Engine?

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I've been trying to use Traefik as an Ingress Controller on Google Cloud's container engine. I got my http deployment/service up and running (when I exposed it with a normal LoadBalancer, it was answering fine). I then removed the LoadBalancer, and followed this tutorial: https://docs.traefik.io/user-guide/kubernetes/ So I got a new `traefik-ingress-controller` deployment and service, and an ingress for traefik's ui which I can access through the kubectl proxy. I then create my ingress for my http service, but here comes my issue: I can't find a way to expose that externally. I want it to be accessible by anybody via an external IP. What am I missing? Here is the output of `kubectl get --export all`: ``` NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE po/mywebservice-3818647231-gr3z9 1/1 Running 0 23h po/mywebservice-3818647231-rn4fw 1/1 Running 0 1h po/traefik-ingress-controller-957212644-28dx6 1/1 Running 0 1h NAME CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE svc/mywebservice 10.51.254.147 <none> 80/TCP 1d sv…

Accepted Answer

You need to expose the Traefik service. Set the service spec type to `LoadBalancer`. Try the below service file that i've used previously:

```
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: traefik
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  selector:
    app: traefik
    tier: proxy
  ports:
  - port: 80
    targetPort: 80
```

How to publicly expose Traefik ingress controller on Google Cloud Container Engine?

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