I've deployed Docker container's on GCE via a Kubernetes cluster using Google's Container Engine tools.

Setting the 'type': 'LoadBalancer' on a service does not support websockets. I want to expose my own nginx service to support websockets but run it inside kubernetes for the dns / service disco.

I see the kubectl expose command has a --public-ip= param. Any hint about how to set up that ip appreciated.

update, tried the expose with --dry-run -o yaml to pass affinity param:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  labels:
    name: tfe
  name: mytfe
spec:
  sessionAffinity: ClientIP
  ports:
  - name: default
    nodePort: 0
    port: 80
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 80
  selector:
    name: tfe
  type: LoadBalancer
status:
  loadBalancer: {}

it opens http fine but I get 400 on the ws GET (after the POST got 200)

"GET /socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=1437780794642-2313&sid=JuLWBlEy4Wjk3zHSAAH0 HTTP/1.1" 400