title: Create kubernetes nginx ingress without GCP load-balancer
body: <p>So I'm using Kubernetes for a side project and it's great. It's cheaper to run for a small project like the one I'm on (a small cluster of 3-5 instances gives me basically everything I need for ~$30/month on GCP). </p>
  
  <p>The only area where I'm struggling is in trying to use the kubernetes Ingress resource to map into cluster and fan out to my microservices (they're small Go or Node backends). I have the configuration setup for the ingress to map to different services and there's no problem there. </p>
  
  <p>I understand that you can really easily have GCP spin up a LoadBalancer when you create an ingress resource. This is fine, but it also represents another $20-ish/month that adds to the cost of the project. Once/if this thing gets some traction, that could be ignored, but for now and also for the sake of understanding Kubernetes better, I want to the do the following:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>get a static IP from GCP, </li>
  <li>use it w/ an ingress resource</li>
  <li>host the load-balancer in the same cluster (using the nginx load balancer)</li>
  <li>avoid paying for the external load balancer</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Is there any way this can even be done using Kubernetes and ingress resources?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>