To deploy traefik on GKE with whoami service when toml file is passed as configMap mounted to deployment of Traefik Run the following command (you may run it again if you get error for the first time as some custom resources take some time to get created) kubectl apply -f . Get the public IP of Treafik-Service $ kubectl get service NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE kubernetes ClusterIP 10.109.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 179m traefik LoadBalancer 10.109.4.20 34.66.233.93 80:30521/TCP,443:32062/TCP,8080:30299/TCP 2m26s whoami ClusterIP 10.109.12.195 <none> 80/TCP 2m25s 84s Features enabled whoami