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Handle spec.loadBalancerIP

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
go

Research direction

Read internal/provider/load_balancer.go, focusing on addressAllocatorFromAnnotations and EnsureLoadBalancer. Trace how the annotation currently selects an explicit IP, then determine whether spec.loadBalancerIP should be supported or rejected, including disagreement handling. Done when setting the field no longer silently does nothing and the chosen behavior is clear.

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Description

Bug Kubernetes Cloud Controller Manager (CCM)

Context

spec.loadBalancerIP is deprecated upstream but still widely used and widely expected to work. Today only the oxide.computer/floating-ip annotation selects an explicit IP; the field is silently ignored.

Scope

Either:

  • Treat the field as equivalent to the oxide.computer/floating-ip annotation (erroring if both are set and disagree), or
  • Reject services that set it, with a clear error pointing at the annotation.

Decision goes in addressAllocatorFromAnnotations / EnsureLoadBalancer (internal/provider/load_balancer.go).

Done when

Setting spec.loadBalancerIP either works or fails loudly — never silently does nothing.

Dominant language
Go
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6
Forks
2
Avg merge
2h 37m
Merged PRs (30d)
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