I’ve created a helm chart to deploy a simple container application to an AKS cluster, but I’m trying to get the LoadBalancer to use a pre-existing static public ip called mypip inside of myrg and can’t seem to set the annotations to do that.

My values.yaml file has the following:

service:
  type: LoadBalancer
  port: 8080
  targetport: 8080
  annotations: 
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-resource-group: "myrg"
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-pip-name: "mypip"
    

And I’ve also tried to set the values on the command line (not sure if the back-slashes are needed here but I’ve seen them in other examples):

helm install helloworld . --set controller.service.annotations.service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-resource-group=myrg --set controller.service.annotations.service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-pip-name=mypip

Each time I deploy the external_ip stays in pending:

E:Documentsworkhelmhelloworld>kubectl get --namespace default svc -w helloworld

NAME         TYPE           CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)          AGE
helloworld   LoadBalancer   10.1.17.71   <pending>     8080:31914/TCP   4s

And the output of “kubectl describe” is telling me that it’s trying to create a new pip and is not showing the annotations I have set.

Can anyone advise what I’m doing wrong? Thank you.