Kubernetes Ingress (GCE) keeps returning 502 error

Question

I am trying to setup an Ingress in GCE Kubernetes. But when I visit the IP address and path combination defined in the Ingress, I keep getting the following 502 error:

Answer 1

Issue is indeed a health check and seemed "random" for my apps where I used name-based virtual hosts to reverse proxy requests from ingress via domains to two separate backend services. Both were secured using Lets Encrypt and kube-lego. My solution was to standardize the path for health checks for all services sharing an ingress, and declare the readinessProbe and livenessProbe configs in my deployment.yml file.

I faced this issue with Google cloud cluster node version 1.7.8 and found this issue that closely-resembled what I experienced: * https://github.com/jetstack/kube-lego/issues/27

I'm using gce and kube-lego and my backend service health checks were on / and kube-lego is on /healthz. It appears differing paths for health checks with gce ingress might be the cause so it may be worth updating backend services to match the /healthz pattern so all use same (or as one commenter in Github issue stated they updated kube-lego to pass on /).