helm upgrade --install ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx \ --namespace ingress-nginx \ --set controller.service.type=LoadBalancer \ --set controller.service.loadBalancerIP=x.x.x.x \ --version 4.2.0 \ --create-namespace \ --set controller.watchIngressWithoutClass=true

Are you for sure trying to specify the LB IP with the controller.service.loadBalancerIP ? Usually I don't specify the LB IP and the cloud provider auto allocates one from the available.

i tried it w/o LB IP and still shows pending

you're giving it a few moments ? the LB provisioning like that I've seen take 1-2 minutes (on AKS where I've done this)

yes waited a long time. BTW, I am not using GKE. I am deploying this on rke cluster with gcp instances

Oh, well... then I'm not sure about that.