Kubernetes Engine support for an annotation to assign a reserved public IPv4 address to a load balancer or network load balancer

You can now use the oci.oraclecloud.com/reserved-ips annotation to assign a reserved public IPv4 address to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure public load balancer or network load balancer that Kubernetes Engine creates when deploying a Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer on a cluster.

Previously, you could assign a reserved public IPv4 address by adding the loadBalancerIP property in the spec section of the service manifest and specifying the reserved public IP address value.

Both methods continue to be supported. However, the spec.loadBalancerIP method will be deprecated in a future release. Therefore, Oracle recommends that you use the oci.oraclecloud.com/reserved-ips annotation to specify reserved public IPv4 addresses in new configurations, instead of the spec.loadBalancerIP property.

For more information, see Specifying Reserved Public IP Addresses.