Help on how to install ingress-nginx - LoadBalancer not getting external-ip

[ninlil]

I have created a vSphere-cluster in a VxRail vCenter (vSphere Client version 7.0.2.00500)
All nodes ready (3 master and 2 worker)

I'm running clusterctl and vsphere v1.0.2.

I then do

$ helm template ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx > nginx.yaml
$ kubectl apply -f nginx.yaml

Everything starts fine, logs looks resonably ok, except regarding the loadbalancer-service...

then, (waiting 1+ hour) I still get:

$ kubectl get svc
NAMESPACE     NAME                                 TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                      AGE
default       ingress-nginx-controller             LoadBalancer   10.103.209.60   <pending>     80:31925/TCP,443:30602/TCP   5h53m
default       ingress-nginx-controller-admission   ClusterIP      10.108.172.48   <none>        443/TCP                      5h53m

I dont know if I've missed something, if something is missing from my setup, if it's a bug, or missing feature... or what it could be.

The documentation regarding Tanzu is not helping me much either, since most of those pages talk about the "haproxy" (deprecated in cluster-api), which i'm not sure is even related to this issue (that seems to be regarding HA on the api-server)

I have tried creating a Calico-resource:

apiVersion: crd.projectcalico.org/v1
kind: BGPConfiguration
metadata:
  name: default
spec:
  serviceLoadBalancerIPs:
  - cidr: 10.4.14.104/31

This didn't change anything, and the calico-controller dont log detecting a new LoadBalancer-service (annotated with matching IP)

I've also tried using MetalLB but that didn't help either.

Any help is appreciated.

[ninlil]

Result:
CAPV doesn't support (out-of-scope) regarding LoadBalancer.
I'm chaning this to a NodePort and dong tooling to update our external loadbalancer.