Reserve and use a static IP address for the load balancer

[emlys]

Adding the terraform config for the static IP address.

[phargogh]

Interesting! So we don't actually define the static IP in the terraform code, we just state that one exists?

[emlys]

Yeah, it's not super intuitive but I followed this documentation: https://docs.cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/reserve-static-external-ip-address

It just assigns an IP from google's pool to the "static IP address" resource with the given name. And keeps that IP reserved unless you choose to release it. You can also bring your own IP, if you already have one reserved from a different provider.