I have an ingress controller in a GKE cluster with ingress.class:

kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"

I wish to assign a static ip to this ingress controller. I followed this tutorial for creating and assigning the static ip:

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials/configuring-domain-name-static-ip

Basically I reserved a static IP and tried to assign it to the ingress using:

kubernetes.io/ingress.global-static-ip-name: "my-ingress-static-ip"

The Problem

The ip address ingress did not changed to the new assigned static ip.

How should I assign this static IP to the ingress?

My Configuration

Controller deployed using:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/controller-v0.40.2/deploy/static/provider/cloud/deploy.yaml

My Ingress yaml:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: api-ingress
  namespace: development
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$1
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: "HTTPS"
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
    # Disallow http - Allowed only with gce controller
    # kubernetes.io/ingress.allow-http: "false"
    # Enable client certificate authentication
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-verify-client: "on"
    # Create the secret containing the trusted ca certificates
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-secret: "development/api-ingress-ca-secret"
    # Specify the verification depth in the client certificates chain
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-verify-depth: "1"
    # Automatically redirect http to https
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/force-ssl-redirect: "true"
    # Use regex in paths
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: "true"
    # For notifications we add the proxy headers
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet: |  
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    # Set a static ip for the ingress
    kubernetes.io/ingress.global-static-ip-name: "my-ingress-static-ip"
spec:
  tls:
    - hosts:
      - my-host.com
      secretName: api-tls-certificate
  rules:
  - host: my-host.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /(v[0-9]/.*)
        backend:
          serviceName: my-service
          servicePort: 443
      

Deleting the ingress or the controller did not fixed the problem.