<p>I have a k8s template for deploying pods and services. I am using this template to deploy different services based on some parameters(different names, labels) on <strong>AKS</strong>.</p>

<p>Some service gets their External-IP and few of the services <strong>External-IP</strong> is always <strong>in pending state</strong>.</p>

<pre><code>NAME                          TYPE           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S) 
service/ca1st-orgc            LoadBalancer   10.0.25.227   &lt;pending&gt;       7054:30907/TCP                                                17m
service/ca1st-orgc-db-mysql   LoadBalancer   10.0.97.81     52.13.67.9     3306:31151/TCP                                                17m
service/kafka1st              ClusterIP      10.0.15.90     &lt;none&gt;           9092/TCP,9093/TCP                                             17m
service/kafka2nd              ClusterIP      10.0.17.22   &lt;none&gt;           9092/TCP,9093/TCP                                             17m
service/kafka3rd              ClusterIP      10.0.02.07    &lt;none&gt;           9092/TCP,9093/TCP                                             17m
service/kubernetes            ClusterIP      10.0.0.1       &lt;none&gt;           443/TCP                                                       20m
service/orderer1st-orgc       LoadBalancer   10.0.17.19   &lt;pending&gt;        7050:30971/TCP                                                17m
service/orderer2nd-orgc       LoadBalancer   10.0.02.15    13.06.27.31     7050:31830/TCP                                                17m
service/peer1st-orga          LoadBalancer   10.0.10.19   &lt;pending&gt;        7051:31402/TCP,7052:32368/TCP,7053:31786/TCP,5984:30721/TCP   17m
service/peer1st-orgb          LoadBalancer   10.0.218.48    13.06.25.13     7051:31892/TCP,7052:30326/TCP,7053:31419/TCP,5984:31882/TCP   17m
service/peer2nd-orga          LoadBalancer   10.0.86.64     &lt;pending&gt;        7051:30590/TCP,7052:31870/TCP,7053:30362/TCP,5984:30036/TCP   17m
service/peer2nd-orgb          LoadBalancer   10.0.195.212   52.13.58.3     7051:30476/TCP,7052:30091/TCP,7053:30099/TCP,5984:32614/TCP   17m
service/zookeeper1st          ClusterIP      10.0.57.192    &lt;none&gt;           2888/TCP,3888/TCP,2181/TCP                                    17m
service/zookeeper2nd          ClusterIP      10.0.174.25    &lt;none&gt;           2888/TCP,3888/TCP,2181/TCP                                    17m
service/zookeeper3rd          ClusterIP      10.0.210.166   &lt;none&gt;           2888/TCP,3888/TCP,2181/TCP                                    17m
</code></pre>

<p>Funny thing is, it's the same template which is being used to deploy all the related services. For an instance, services which are prefixed with <strong>peer</strong>, being deployed by same template.</p>

<p>Has anyone faced this?</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Deployment template for an <strong>orderer</strong> Pod</p>
</blockquote>

<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: {{ orderer.name }}
  labels:
    k8s-app: {{ orderer.name }}
    type: orderer
{% if (project_version is version('1.4.0','&gt;=') or 'stable' in project_version or 'latest' in project_version) and fabric.metrics is defined and fabric.metrics %}
  annotations:
    prometheus.io/scrape: 'true'
    prometheus.io/path: /metrics
    prometheus.io/port: '8443'
    prometheus.io/scheme: 'http'
{% endif %}
spec:
{% if creds %}
  imagePullSecrets:
  - name: regcred
{% endif %}
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
  volumes:
    - name: task-pv-storage
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: fabriccerts
  affinity:
    podAntiAffinity:
      preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
      - weight: 1
        podAffinityTerm:
          labelSelector:
            matchExpressions:
            - key: type
              operator: In
              values:
                - orderer
          topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
  containers:
    - name: {{ orderer.name }}
      image: {{ fabric.repo.url }}fabric-orderer:{{ fabric.baseimage_tag }}
{% if 'latest' in project_version or 'stable' in project_version %}
      imagePullPolicy: Always
{% else %}
      imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
{% endif %}
      env:
{% if project_version is version('1.3.0','&lt;') %}
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_LOGLEVEL", value: "{{ fabric.logging_level | default('ERROR') | lower }}" }
{% elif project_version is version('1.4.0','&gt;=') or 'stable' in project_version or 'latest' in project_version %}
        - { name: "FABRIC_LOGGING_SPEC", value: "{{ fabric.logging_level | default('ERROR') | lower }}" }
{% endif %}
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_LISTENADDRESS", value: "0.0.0.0" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_GENESISMETHOD", value: "file" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_GENESISFILE", value: "/etc/hyperledger/fabric/artifacts/keyfiles/genesis.block" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_LOCALMSPID", value: "{{ orderer.org }}" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_LOCALMSPDIR", value: "/etc/hyperledger/fabric/artifacts/keyfiles/{{ orderer.org }}/orderers/{{ orderer.name }}.{{ orderer.org }}/msp" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_TLS_ENABLED", value: "{{ tls | lower }}" }
{% if tls %}
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_TLS_PRIVATEKEY", value: "/etc/hyperledger/fabric/artifacts/keyfiles/{{ orderer.org }}/orderers/{{ orderer.name }}.{{ orderer.org }}/tls/server.key" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_TLS_CERTIFICATE", value: "/etc/hyperledger/fabric/artifacts/keyfiles/{{ orderer.org }}/orderers/{{ orderer.name }}.{{ orderer.org }}/tls/server.crt" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_TLS_ROOTCAS", value: "[/etc/hyperledger/fabric/artifacts/keyfiles/{{ orderer.org }}/orderers/{{ orderer.name }}.{{ orderer.org }}/tls/ca.crt]" }
{% endif %}
{% if (project_version is version_compare('2.0.0','&gt;=') or ('stable' in project_version or 'latest' in project_version)) and fabric.consensus_type is defined and fabric.consensus_type == 'etcdraft' %}
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_CLUSTER_CLIENTPRIVATEKEY", value: "/etc/hyperledger/fabric/artifacts/keyfiles/{{ orderer.org }}/orderers/{{ orderer.name }}.{{ orderer.org }}/tls/server.key" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_CLUSTER_CLIENTCERTIFICATE", value: "/etc/hyperledger/fabric/artifacts/keyfiles/{{ orderer.org }}/orderers/{{ orderer.name }}.{{ orderer.org }}/tls/server.crt" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_CLUSTER_ROOTCAS", value: "[/etc/hyperledger/fabric/artifacts/keyfiles/{{ orderer.org }}/orderers/{{ orderer.name }}.{{ orderer.org }}/tls/ca.crt]" }
{% elif fabric.consensus_type | default('kafka') == 'kafka' %}
        - { name: "ORDERER_KAFKA_RETRY_SHORTINTERVAL", value: "1s" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_KAFKA_RETRY_SHORTTOTAL", value: "30s" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_KAFKA_VERBOSE", value: "true" }
{% endif %}
{% if mutualtls %}
{% if project_version is version('1.1.0','&gt;=') or 'stable' in project_version or 'latest' in project_version %}
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_TLS_CLIENTAUTHREQUIRED", value: "true" }
{% else %}
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_TLS_CLIENTAUTHENABLED", value: "true" }
{% endif %}
        - { name: "ORDERER_GENERAL_TLS_CLIENTROOTCAS", value: "[{{ rootca | list | join (", ")}}]" }
{% endif %}
{% if (project_version is version('1.4.0','&gt;=') or 'stable' in project_version or 'latest' in project_version) and fabric.metrics is defined and fabric.metrics %}
        - { name: "ORDERER_OPERATIONS_LISTENADDRESS", value: ":8443" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_OPERATIONS_TLS_ENABLED", value: "false" }
        - { name: "ORDERER_METRICS_PROVIDER", value: "prometheus" }
{% endif %}
{% if fabric.orderersettings is defined and fabric.orderersettings.ordererenv is defined %}
{% for pkey, pvalue in fabric.orderersettings.ordererenv.items() %}
        - { name: "{{ pkey }}", value: "{{ pvalue }}" }
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% include './resource.j2' %}
      volumeMounts:
        - { mountPath: "/etc/hyperledger/fabric/artifacts", name: "task-pv-storage" }
      command: ["orderer"]
</code></pre>

<blockquote>
  <p>Deployment config for LoadBalancer</p>
</blockquote>

<pre><code>kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: {{ orderer.name }}
  name: {{ orderer.name }}
spec:
  selector:
    k8s-app: {{ orderer.name }}
{% if fabric.k8s.exposeserviceport %}
  type: LoadBalancer
{% endif %}
  ports:
    - name: port1
      port: 7050
{% if fabric.metrics is defined and fabric.metrics %}
    - name: scrapeport
      port: 8443
{% endif %}
</code></pre>

<blockquote>
  <p>Interesting thing is, I don't see any Events(on running kubectl describe service orderer1st-orgc) for the services which haven't got their External-IP</p>
</blockquote>

<pre><code>Session Affinity:         None
External Traffic Policy:  Cluster
Events:                   &lt;none&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Please share your thoughts.</p>

Nitish Bhardwaj
<p>There was an issue with my cluster. I am not sure what it was but, <strong>the same set of LoadBalancers never used to get their Public IP</strong>. No matter how many times you cleanup all the pvc, services and pods. I deleted the cluster and re-created one. Everything works as expected in the new cluster.</p>

<p>All the LoadBalancers gets their public IP.</p>
