<p>Having a 'working' cluster based on the following example : <a href="https://github.com/jetstack/kube-lego/tree/master/examples/nginx" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jetstack/kube-lego/tree/master/examples/nginx</a></p>

<p>With the above config for the RC, I keep having the following error when looking at the loadbalancer's backend health check : <code>This load balancer has no health check, so traffic will be sent to all instances regardless of their status.</code> Although they do have an healthcheck, and that the default backend is up (deployment &amp; service)</p>

<p>There is a service atop nginx in order to benefit from using static ips on lb ingresses; should this one be healed too ?</p>

<p>Captured here in case : <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f5Ngh.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f5Ngh.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>I might lack of basic knowledge about health checks; but reading the doc did not helped on this to have a clear setup and solve this issue</p>

<p>Help appreciated; best</p>

<p>Note that LB health checks are part of the gce infra and differ from k8s internal pod healthchecks.</p>

<p>see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34648176/is-the-google-container-engine-kubernetes-service-loadbalancer-sending-traffic-t">Is the Google Container Engine Kubernetes Service LoadBalancer sending traffic to unresponsive hosts?</a></p>
