From @omerzach on February 28, 2017 1:20

We're happily using the GCE load balancer controller in production to route traffic to a few different services. We'd like to have some paths point at backend buckets in Google Cloud Storage instead of backend services running in Kubernetes.

Right now if we manually create this backend bucket and then configure the load balancer to point certain paths at it the UrlMap is updates appropriately but almost immediately reverted to its previous setting, presumably because the controller sees it doesn't match the YAML we initially configured the Ingress with.

I have two questions:

1. Is there any immediate workaround where we could continue using the Kubernetes controller but manually modify the UrlMap to work with a backend bucket?
2. Would a pull request to add support for backend buckets in the load balancer controller be something the community is interested in? We're willing to invest engineering effort into this, though none of our team has experience with Go or the Kubernetes codebase so we might need a bit of guidance.

(For some context, we'd like to do something like this: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/using-http-lb-with-cloud-storage)

Copied from original issue: kubernetes/ingress-nginx#353