Expose port in minikube

I am not exactly sure what you are asking as it seems you already know about the minikube service <SERVICE_NAME> –url command which will give you a url where you can access the service. In order to open the exposed service, the minikube service <SERVICE_NAME> command can be used: $ kubectl run hello-minikube –image=gcr.io/google_containers/echoserver:1.4 –port=8080 … Read more

How do I access the Kubernetes api from within a pod container?

In the official documentation I found this: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/access-cluster/#accessing-the-api-from-a-pod Apparently I was missing a security token that I didn’t need in a previous version of Kubernetes. From that, I devised what I think is a simpler solution than running a proxy or installing golang on my container. See this example that gets the information, from the … Read more

Service located in another namespace

I stumbled over the same issue and found a nice solution which does not need any static ip configuration: You can access a service via it’s DNS name (as mentioned by you): servicename.namespace.svc.cluster.local You can use that DNS name to reference it in another namespace via a local service: kind: Service apiVersion: v1 metadata: name: … Read more

What’s the difference between ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer service types in Kubernetes?

[*] A ClusterIP exposes the following: spec.clusterIp:spec.ports[*].port You can only access this service while inside the cluster. It is accessible from its spec.clusterIp port. If a spec.ports[*].targetPort is set it will route from the port to the targetPort. The CLUSTER-IP you get when calling kubectl get services is the IP assigned to this service within … Read more

How do I test a ClusterIssuer solver?

apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1alpha2 kind: Certificate metadata: name: certificate-name spec: secretName: tls-cert duration: 24h renewBefore: 12h commonName: hostname dnsNames: – hostname issuerRef: name: letsencrypt kind: ClusterIssuer apiVersion: certmanager.k8s.io/v1alpha2 kind: ClusterIssuer metadata: name: letsencrypt spec: acme: email: [email protected] privateKeySecretRef: name: letsencrypt-private-key server: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory solvers: – http01: ingress: class: nginx selector: {} apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1 kind: Ingress metadata: annotations: certmanager.k8s.io/acme-challenge-type: … Read more