Ingress Nginx external IP set not working - azure

Question

I'm trying to make Ingress use external IP i have created in Azure
First I have created an IP in the portal and added my AKS service as network contributor, then added it in the values file used by HELM
# -- List of IP addresses at which the controller services are available
## Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/services/#external-ips
##
externalIPs: ["20.124.63.xxx"]
# -- Used by cloud providers to connect the resulting `LoadBalancer` to a pre-existing static IP according to https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#loadbalancer
loadBalancerIP: ""
loadBalancerSourceRanges: []
enableHttp: true
enableHttps: true
But after deployment, my ingress gets two external IPs, and the one set by me does not work at all, only automatically generated works:
My config looks like this, so I think running this as loadbalancer is not exactly possible:
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: hello-world-ingress
namespace: default
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "false"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: "true"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$1
spec:
ingressClassName: nginx
rules:
- host: xxx.com
http:
paths:
- path: /(.*)
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: aks-one
port:
number: 80
- host: xxx.com
http:
paths:
- path: /(.*)
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: aks-two
port:
number: 80
I would like to use static IP I have created to access my Ingress, what should I do to achieve that?

Answer 1

Exposing the Service of your ingress controller with your public ip can be done like this:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
annotations:
service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-resource-group: myResourceGroup # only needed if the LB is in another RG
name: ingress-nginx-controller
spec:
loadBalancerIP: <YOUR_STATIC_IP>
type: LoadBalancer
Azure now will spin-up a LoadBalancer with your public IP.
The Ingress Controller then will route incoming traffic to your apps with an Ingress resource:
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: minimal-ingress
spec:
ingressClassName: nginx # ingress-nginx specifix
rules:
- http:
paths:
- path: /
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: test
port:
number: 80