Why Kubernetes services can not be resolved? - kubernetes

Question

In my namespace I have services
k get svc
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
blue-service NodePort 10.107.127.118 <none> 80:32092/TCP 60m
demo ClusterIP 10.111.134.22 <none> 80/TCP 3d
I added blue-service to /etc/hosts
It failes again
wget -O- blue-service
--2022-06-13 11:11:32-- http://blue-service/
Resolving blue-service (blue-service)... 10.107.127.118
Connecting to blue-service (blue-service)|10.107.127.118|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.
I decided to chech with describe
Name: blue-service
Namespace: default
Labels: app=blue
Annotations: <none>
Selector: app=blue
Type: NodePort
IP Family Policy: SingleStack
IP Families: IPv4
IP: 10.107.127.118
IPs: 10.107.127.118
Port: <unset> 80/TCP
TargetPort: 8080/TCP
NodePort: <unset> 32092/TCP
Endpoints: 172.17.0.39:8080,172.17.0.40:8080,172.17.0.41:8080
Session Affinity: None
External Traffic Policy: Cluster
Events: <none>
Why?

Answer 1

The services you are referring to do not have an external IP (the External IP field is empty) so you cannot access those services.
If you want to access those services, you either need to
Make them a LoadBalancer service type which will give them an external IP
or
Use kubectl port-forward to connect a local port on your machine to the service then use localhost:xxxx to access the service
If you want to map a DNS name to the service, you should look at the External DNS project as mentioned in this answer which will allow you to create DNS entries in your provider's DNS service (if you are running the cluster on a managed platform)
OR, use nip.io if you're only testing