I was checking UpdateLoadBalancer implementation in kubernetes. Following is my understanding:

Setup – 3 nodes – 1 Master and 2 Minions

• Create a service with type=LoadBalancer, without any pods associated to it.
• Create 1 pod(pod-1 lands in minion-1) for the service – UpdateLoadBalancer is invoked.
• Scale the pods for the service to 2.
  • Pod-2 lands in minion-2 - UpdateLoadBalancer is invoked.
  • Scale the pods to 3. Pod-3 lands in minion-1 or minion-2 - UpdateLoadBalancer is not invoked.

The reason is, UpdateLoadBalancer is only called if a new minion/node is associated with a service. Since minion-1 and minion-2 are already associated with the service, update is not invoked.

I am writing a cloud provider plugin for kubernetes. Currently all the cloud providers have added minion nodes as members for load balancer. But in my implementation I have added the pod's IP as members of the LB.

From my understanding, I think that update is not possible with the current design. Is my understanding correct?