title: Is there a way to not use GKE's standard load balancer?
body: <p>I'm trying to use Kubernetes to make configurations and deployments explicitly defined and I also like Kubernetes' pod scheduling mechanisms. There are (for now) just 2 apps running on 2 replicas on 3 nodes. But Google's Kubernetes Engine's load balancer is extremely expensive for a small app like ours (at least for the moment) at the same time I'm not willing to change to a single instance hosting solution on a container or deploying the app on Docker swarm etc. </p>
  
  <p>Using node's IP seemed like a hack and I thought that it might expose some security issues inside the cluster. Therefore I configured a Træfik ingress and an ingress controller to overcome Google's expensive flat rate for load balancing but turns out an outward facing ingress spins up a standart load balancer or I'm missing something.</p>
  
  <p>I hope I'm missing something since at this rates ($16 a month) I cannot rationalize using kubernetes from start up for this app.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to use GKE without using Google's load balancer?</p>