Ingress redirect to a localhost tcp service - kubernetes

Question

I have a local website.
The website was created by a docker-compose and it is listening on a localhost port 3000.
When I try:
curl 127.0.0.1:3000
I can see the response.
What I did:
From my domain provider I edited the DNS to point to my server, then I changed nginx-ingress:
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: virtual-host-ingress
namespace: ingress-basic
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "true"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: "true"
cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: "letsencrypt-pp"
spec:
tls:
- hosts:
- nextformulainvesting.com
secretName: ***
rules:
- host: "nextformulainvesting.com"
http:
paths:
- pathType: Prefix
path: "/"
backend:
service:
name: e-frontend-saleor
port:
number: 80
and I created the service:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: e-frontend-saleor
spec:
ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 80
targetPort: 3000
But with the service or without the service I receive the error 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable.
How can I use nginx-ingress to point to my local TCP service?

Answer 1

To clarify the issue I am posting a community wiki answer.
The answer that helped to resolve this issue is available at this link. Based on that - the clue of the case is to create manually a Service and an Endpoint objects for external server.
After that one can create an Ingress object that will point to Service external-ip with adequate port .
Here are the examples of objects provided in similar question.
Service and an Endpoint objects:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: external-ip
spec:
ports:
- name: app
port: 80
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 5678
clusterIP: None
type: ClusterIP
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Endpoints
metadata:
name: external-ip
subsets:
- addresses:
- ip: 10.0.40.1
ports:
- name: app
port: 5678
protocol: TCP
Ingress object:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: external-service
spec:
rules:
- host: service.example.com
http:
paths:
- backend:
serviceName: external-ip
servicePort: 80
path: /
See also this reference.

Answer 2

Your service that you have created is for forwarding the traffic to deployments
As your service is running out side of Kubernetes cluster you should be using the Endpoint in this case
apiVersion: v1
kind: Endpoints
metadata:
name: my-service
subsets:
- addresses:
- IP: <External IP>
ports:
- port: 3000
and you can use this Endpoint to ingress so that it will route the traffic.
Ingress
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: virtual-host-ingress
namespace: ingress-basic
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "true"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: "true"
cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: "letsencrypt-pp"
spec:
tls:
- hosts:
- nextformulainvesting.com
secretName: ***
rules:
- host: "nextformulainvesting.com"
http:
paths:
- pathType: Prefix
path: "/"
backend:
service:
name: my-service
port:
number: 3000