# Accessing a published workload on GKE?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/accessing-a-published-workload-on-gke/10110>\
**Category:** Rancher 2.0 Tech Preview\
**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/accessing-a-published-workload-on-gke/10110 "2018-04-18T20:24:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![davecore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b77776/32.png) [@davecore](https://forums.suse.com/u/davecore)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/accessing-a-published-workload-on-gke/10110/1 "2018-04-18T20:24:15Z")

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Hi, I’m using Rancher 2.0 and I launched a GKE cluster through Rancher. I can deploy an nginx workload in my GKE cluster, using a random port.

If I click on the arrow to launch the website URL for my nginx workload, it will load forever and eventually time out. If I allow that specific port in my Google Cloud firewall rules for this node/cluster it will work and I will be able to access my nginx workload.

However I believe I’m supposed to use a load balancer or ingress to access my nginx workload. What are the steps to do that and do I need to do additional configuration to make this work?

Thank you!  
David

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**Author:** ![davecore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b77776/32.png) [@davecore](https://forums.suse.com/u/davecore)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 4:49am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/accessing-a-published-workload-on-gke/10110/2 "2018-04-19T04:49:17Z")

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I found my answer. I was doing Port Mapping to publish the port on every node instead of selecting Load Balancer.

Selecting Load Balancer in my Rancher workload Port Mapping created a Load Balancer resource in Google Cloud and then I was able to click the arrow to launch the nginx URL once the load balancer resource was ready on Google Cloud.