This is one of those little things. I’m sure the veteran Kube admins out there are saying “well of course” but sometimes trying to sort through forums of Q&A on the internet is problematic even with the help of your favorite search engine. I thought I’d add one more page that might turn up and help someone else.

So you have created a self-managed K8s cluster and have you load balancer setup for your service and you have a bunch of <pending> when you look at your services. You can simply patch your service.

kubectl patch svc <svc-name> -n <namespace> -p '{"spec": {"type": "LoadBalancer", "externalIPs":["x.x.x.x"]}}