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  1. OpenShift Bugs
  2. OCPBUGS-9217

Expand "if the cloud-provider supports it" caveats for LoadBalancer Services

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      Document URL: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/networking/configuring_ingress_cluster_traffic/configuring-ingress-cluster-traffic-load-balancer.html#nw-create-load-balancer-service_configuring-ingress-cluster-traffic-load-balancer

      Section Number and Name: Creating a load balancer service

      Describe the issue: Currently no warning like "vSphere's cloud provider is not capable of creating load balancers, and will ignore that aspect of Service resources".

      Suggestions for improvement: Mention that LB support depends on the cloud-provider. Possibly attempt to keep track of which cloud providers have this support, or point folks at a way to check (not sure if this exists or not).

      Additional information: [1] is the upstream, in-tree vSphere cloud provider saying "yeah, I don't do load balancers". Presumably the "None" cloud provider also ignores load balancer requests. I haven't checked other cloud providers. I haven't gone back through the docs to see how stable this text is, but I'd guess at least 4.6+ would need the new warning.

      [1]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/707b8b6efd1691b84095c9f995f2c259244e276c/staging/src/k8s.io/legacy-cloud-providers/vsphere/vsphere.go#L906-L909

            jmanthei@redhat.com Jessica Manthei
            trking W. Trevor King
            Zhanqi Zhao Zhanqi Zhao
            Latha Sreenivasa Murthy Latha Sreenivasa Murthy
            Red Hat Employee
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