your assumption about metallb is wrong. metallb uses the range you configured and btw. you can disable the auto assign via: `auto-assign: false` https://metall

your assumption about metallb is wrong. metallb uses the range you configured and btw. you can disable the auto assign via: `auto-assign: false` https://metallb.universe.tf/configuration/ https://metallb.universe.tf/configuration/ However now your Type: LoadBalancer won't get any ip. BUT you can now use the spec.loadBalancerIP value to manually set the ip you want. - https://metallb.universe.tf/usage/#requesting-specific-ips https://metallb.universe.tf/usage/#requesting-specific-ips - https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#loadbalancer https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/serv...