I am trying to better understand Metallb with and without Rancher and can always get an external IP address by doing the following: $ kubectl create deploy nginx --image nginx:latest deployment.apps/nginx created $ kubectl expose deploy nginx --port 80 --type LoadBalancer service/nginx exposed $ kubectl get all NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE pod/nginx-7584b6f84c-rr9jj 1/1 Running 0 109s NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE service/kubernetes ClusterIP 10.43.0.1 none 443/TCP 8d service/nginx LoadBalancer 10.43.153.34 192.168.0.240 80:30480/TCP 11s What I don't understand is why does node itself not get an IP (I know you can use the default system one) and is there a better way than using expose as I would have thought converting/updating an existing service would better? This also applies for Rancher, would it not be better to advertise it on a dedicated IP-Address?