I'm following this documentation for deploying Kubernetes Dashboard: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/web-ui-dashboard/
Question # 1:
The instructions are only available to run the dashboard locally. Is there any tutorial to deploy it in Cloud (Azure, AWS)? If not, do we have to manually expose a load balancer / ingress in front of the dashboard service?
Question # 2:
The instructions mentions to run kubectl proxy in order to enable access to dashboard. If deploying to cloud, do we need to run that as a process in the background?
Regarding question 1,
You can deploy this dashboard to a cloud of course, for AWS you could set up eks or ec2 instance and deploy you application or this dashboard directly.
You will need to set up a service, NodePort or Load balancer. Using you VM IP as IP and NodePort as the port exposes for the outside world, or if you decide to create a load balancer, use the endpoint of the service kubectl get endpoints -n <service_namespace> and load balancer port.
For question 2 I'm not sure about proxy, maybe my answers for question 1 is enough. But documentation knows better.
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What I'm trying to do
I have deployed an aps.net core gRpc service on Docker for Desktop (Kubernetes enabled). To do client-side load balancing, I want to expose the same via a headless service. The deployment and service definition YAML files are as provided by the link viz. Deployment.yaml , service.yaml, and PV and PVC .yaml. When the deployment is run two replicas will be created. Now I want to expose them via a headless service and do a DNS lookup of the pods' IP addresses and do a client-side load balancing. For this, I installed the bitnami external-dns using the HELM charts. I did not make any modifications to the default chart values. Now when I try to do a nslookup of my service this is not working.
My expectation
Deploy the bitnami external-dns on Docker for Desktop with Kubernetes enabled and configured service to expose as DNS on the load balancer. I was expecting the nslookup to succeed in getting the pod IPs as a result
Can someone help me to get the same working?
I have a requirement that the server that is running inside one of my container in a k8s cluster should be able to reach a server that is running in some other machine (currently its in AWS).Now the problem is that both the server (in AWS & Kubernetes Cluster) should be able to reach each other.
My server in AWS is not able to ping my Server running in Kubernetes Cluster.
Is that possible? Can we do it ?
Yes you can use ingress-nginx to create publicly reachable services ingress-nginx
If you want to do it manually you can setup load balancers that map to specific ip ranges for your nodes. This is for ssh traffic.
yes you can use ingress kubernetes object it will create publicly reachable services.
Mainly if you are using aws or digital-ocean and you will use ingress it will make load balancer (ELB or ALB) and make public service and you can access server running inside kubernetes
By manually also you can do it just simply use kubernetes service and expose it using load balancer and NODE port
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
I have Kubernetes Cluster v1.10 Over Centos 7 Over OVH Cloud Provider's Servers .
As I knew OVH does not Provide Loadbalancer Component Directly to Kubernetes
And I want to buy Loadbalancer Component From OVH From this Link and connect to kubernetes Cluster .
Can I connect Loadbalancer to Kubernetes?
And is there any tutorial?
Thank You :D
Yes.
You can follow this guide from OVH in terms setting up your load balancer.
And in terms of Kubernetes you'd either want to create a Kubernetes Ingress exposed on a NodePort, this is a good tutorial for that, or you can also expose your services directly on a NodePort and point your load balancer's backend to all the nodes in your cluster on that specific NodePort.
I would also familiarize with the Services abstraction in Kubernetes.
Yes, you can.
How, on the other side, is not an obvious one. My suggestion would be to make it part of your kubernetes infra provisioning with terraform. Using https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/ovh/r/iploadbalancing_tcp_farm_server.html you can manage endpoints for your loadbalancer based on instances / hosts provisioned either manually or with openstack provider. That's how I do it on our OVH Kube cluster.
I created a kubernetes service something like this on my 4 node cluster:
kubectl expose deployment distcc-deploy --name=distccsvc --port=8080
--target-port=3632 --type=LoadBalancer
The problem is how do I expose this service to an external ip. Without an external ip you can not ping or reach this service endpoint from outside network.
I am not sure if i need to change the kubedns or put some kind of changes.
Ideally I would like the service to be exposed on the host ip.
Like http://localhost:32876
hypothetically let's say
i have a 4 node vm on which i am running let's say nginx service. i expose it as a lodabalancer service. how can i access the nginx using this service from the vm ?
let's say the service name is nginxsvc is there a way i can do http://:8080. how will i get this here for my 4 node vm ?
LoadBalancer does different things depending on where you deployed kubernetes. If you deployed on AWS (using kops or some other tool) it'll create an elastic load balancer to expose the service. If you deployed on GCP it'll do something similar - Google terminology escapes me at the moment. These are separate VMs in the cloud routing traffic to your service. If you're playing around in minikube LoadBalancer doesn't really do anything, it does a node port with the assumption that the user understands minikube isn't capable of providing a true load balancer.
LoadBalancer is supposed to expose your service via a brand new IP address. So this is what happens on the cloud providers, they requisition VMs with a separate public IP address (GCP gives a static address and AWS a DNS). NodePort will expose as a port on kubernetes node running the pod. This isn't a workable solution for a general deployment but works ok while developing.
I'm building a container cluster using CoreOs and Kubernetes on DigitalOcean, and I've seen that in order to expose a Pod to the world you have to create a Service with Type: LoadBalancer. I think this is the optimal solution so that you don't need to add external load balancer outside kubernetes like nginx or haproxy. I was wondering if it is possible to create this using DO's Floating IP.
Things have changed, DigitalOcean created their own cloud provider implementation as answered here and they are maintaining a Kubernetes "Cloud Controller Manager" implementation:
Kubernetes Cloud Controller Manager for DigitalOcean
Currently digitalocean-cloud-controller-manager implements:
nodecontroller - updates nodes with cloud provider specific labels and
addresses, also deletes kubernetes nodes when deleted on the cloud
provider.
servicecontroller - responsible for creating LoadBalancers
when a service of Type: LoadBalancer is created in Kubernetes.
To try it out clone the project on your master node.
Next get the token key from https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/api/tokens and run:
export DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN=abc123abc123abc123
scripts/generate-secret.sh
kubectl apply -f do-cloud-controller-manager/releases/v0.1.6.yml
There more examples here
What will happen once you do the above? DO's cloud manager will create a load balancer (that has a failover mechanism out of the box, more on it in the load balancer's documentation
Things will change again soon as DigitalOcean are jumping on the Kubernetes bandwagon, check here and you will have a choice to let them manage your Kuberentes cluster instead of you worrying about a lot of the infrastructure (this is my understanding of the service, let's see how it works when it becomes available...)
The LoadBalancer type of service is implemented by adding code to the kubernetes master specific to each cloud provider. There isn't a cloud provider for Digital Ocean (supported cloud providers), so the LoadBalancer type will not be able to take advantage of Digital Ocean's Floating IPs.
Instead, you should consider using a NodePort service or attaching an ExternalIP to your service and mapping the exposed IP to a DO floating IP.
It is actually possible to expose a service through a floating ip. The only catch is that the external IP that you need to use is a little unintuitive.
From what it seems DO has some sort of overlay network for their Floating IP service. To get the actual IP you need to expose you need to ssh into your gateway droplet and find its anchor IP by hitting up the metadata service:
curl -s http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/interfaces/public/0/anchor_ipv4/address
and you will get something like
10.x.x.x
This is the address that you can use as an external ip in LoadBalancer type service in kubernetes.
Example:
kubectl expose rc my-nginx --port=80 --public-ip=10.x.x.x --type=LoadBalancer