Cannot Access Application Deployment from Outside in Kubernetes - minikube

Question

I'm trying to access my Golang Microservice that is running in the Kubernetes Cluster and has following Manifest..
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: email-application-service
namespace: email-namespace
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
run: internal-service
template:
metadata:
labels:
run: internal-service
spec:
containers:
- name: email-service-application
image: some_image
ports:
- containerPort: 8000
hostPort: 8000
protocol: TCP
envFrom:
- secretRef:
name: project-secrets
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
So to access this Deployment from the Outside of the Cluster I'm using Service as well,
And I've set up some External IP for test purposes, which suppose to forward HTTP requests to the port 8000, where my application is actually running at.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: email-internal-service
namespace: email-namespace
spec:
type: ClusterIP
externalIPs:
- 192.168.0.10
selector:
run: internal-service
ports:
- name: http
port: 8000
targetPort: 8000
protocol: TCP
So the problem is that When I'm trying to send a GET request from outside the Cluster by executing curl -f http:192.168.0.10:8000/ it just stuck until the timeout.
I've checked the state of the pods, logs of the application, matching of the selector/template names at the Service and Application Manifests, namespaces, but everything of this is fine and working properly...
(There is also a secret config but It Deployed and also working file)
Thanks...

Answer 1

Making reference to jordanm's solution: you want to put it back to clusterIP and then use port-forward with kubectl -n email-namespace port-forward svc/email-internal-service 8000:8000. You will then be able to access the service via http://localhost:8000. You may also be interested in github.com/txn2/kubefwd