I am a software engineer, and long-time proponent of Go. This site hosts some of the blog entries I've written over the years, along with details about some of the projects I've created, and write-ups from interesting problems I've solved.
The big trick with using a static IP is to specify in your service config
portalIPs: - put.your.ip.here
and, in particular, you must not have
createExternalLoadBalancer: true
because that will attempt to create one for you.