How can I assign and access public IPs for my (VMSS) AKS nodes?

Question

I'm attempting to setup the demo AKS architecture referenced here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/azure/reference-architectures/multiplayer-synchronous-aks

Unfortunately the steps provided in the referenced repository for VMSS no longer appear to work.

Steps taken:

1. Added "publicIpAddressConfiguration": { "name": "pub1" } to the appropriate VMSS resource
2. Manually scaled out the nodes to pick up the new configuration
3. Received error: OutboundRules for VMs with public IpConfigurations (instance level publicIPs)...ipConfigurations/ipconfig1 are not supported

What steps do I need to take to:

1. Automatically assign my AKS nodes public IP addresses?
2. Make those public IP addresses available to the k8s client? [i.e. kubectl get nodes -o wide]

Happy to provide more details as needed!

Answer 1

@Kenneth Miner Apologies for the delay in response.

Had a discussion internally and got to know that there’s a preview of AKS enabling PIP per Node .

The same has been mentioned in this article.

Can you check if it working for you or not?If yes I can raise a PR as well as applicable.

Note: Since the feature is currently in preview so it is recommended to try out in Test environment so that if something doesn't work as impacted the Production environment won't get affected.

Hope it helps.

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