GKE TCP Socket Connections

[chris_kraus]

Problem: I have a legacy application which uses TCP Socket connections secured over a TLS encrypted network and GKE does not appear to support this natively.

While I thoroughly understand and use Ingress controllers with managed certificate resources to secure HTTPS communication, there does not appear to be a solution using TLS certs and TCP socket connections.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and/or found a solution?

[JGerman23]

TLS certificates used in conjunction with an ingress that deploys a Load Balancer are the only way to provide TLS connections in GKE.