Using HTTPS GLB with NGINX ingress in GKE

I had third party software that relied on NGINX ingress and wouldn’t work with GKE Ingress. After lots of digging around and piecing together some info, I found I can attach expose an NEG directly to the ingress controller and route into the cluster that way. Just append the following to your annotations. cloud.google.com/neg: '{"exposed_ports": {"80":{}, "443":{}}}' If you want to use HTTPS load balancer, only 80 and 443 will be usable. Read more