advancedScenario & System Design Questions
LoadBalancer Service has no EXTERNAL-IP after 5 minutes
The cloud controller hasn't provisioned the LB. Check events on the Service. If on a bare-metal cluster, no cloud controller exists -- use MetalLB or NodePort instead. If on a cloud, check cloud-provider annotations and IAM permissions.
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