pointing selenium tests through nodePort in a service - kubernetes

Question

I have this in a selenium-hub-service.yml file:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: selenium-srv
spec:
selector:
app: selenium-hub
ports:
- port: 4444
nodePort: 30001
type: NodePort
sessionAffinity: None
When I do kubectl describe service on terminal, I get the endpoint of kubernetes service as 192.168.49.2:8443. I then take that and point the browser to 192.168.49.2:30001 but browser is not able to reach that endpoint. I was expecting to reach selenium hub.
When I do minikube service selenium-srv --url, which gives me http://127.0.0.1:56498 and point browser to it, I can reach the hub.
My question is: why am I not able to reach through nodePort?
I would like to do it through nodePort way because I know the port beforehand and if kubernetes service end point remains constant then it may be easy to point my tests to a known endpoint when I integrate it with azure pipeline.
EDIT: output of kubectl get service:
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 4d
selenium-srv NodePort 10.96.34.117 <none> 4444:30001/TCP 2d2h

Answer 1

Posted community wiki based on this Github topic. Feel free to expand it.
The information below assumes that you are using the default driver docker.
Minikube on macOS behaves a bit differently than on Linux. While on Linux, you have special interfaces used for docker and for connecting to the minikube node port, like this one:
3: docker0:
...
inet 172.17.0.1/16
And this one:
4: br-42319e616ec5:
...
inet 192.168.49.1/24 brd 192.168.49.255 scope global br-42319e616ec5
There is no such solution implemented on macOS. Check this:
This is a known issue, Docker Desktop networking doesn't support ports. You will have to use minikube tunnel.
Also:
there is no bridge0 on Macos, and it makes container IP unreachable from host.
That means you can't connect to your service using IP address 192.168.49.2.
Check also this article: Known limitations, use cases, and workarounds - Docker Desktop for Mac:
There is no docker0 bridge on macOS
Because of the way networking is implemented in Docker Desktop for Mac, you cannot see a docker0 interface on the host. This interface is actually within the virtual machine.
I cannot ping my containers
Docker Desktop for Mac can’t route traffic to containers.
Per-container IP addressing is not possible
The docker (Linux) bridge network is not reachable from the macOS host.
There are few ways to setup minikube to use NodePort at the localhost address on Mac, like this one:
minikube start --driver=docker --extra-config=apiserver.service-node-port-range=32760-32767 --ports=127.0.0.1:32760-32767:32760-32767`
You can also use minikube service command which will return a URL to connect to a service.

Answer 2

is your deployment running on port 4444 ?
try this
deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: selenium-hub
labels:
app: selenium-hub
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: selenium-hub
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: selenium-hub
spec:
containers:
- name: selenium-hub
image: selenium/hub:3.141
ports:
- containerPort: 4444
resources:
limits:
memory: "1000Mi"
cpu: ".5"
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /wd/hub/status
port: 4444
initialDelaySeconds: 30
timeoutSeconds: 5
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /wd/hub/status
port: 4444
initialDelaySeconds: 30
timeoutSeconds: 5
service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: selenium-hub
labels:
app: selenium-hub
spec:
ports:
- port: 4444
targetPort: 4444
name: port0
selector:
app: selenium-hub
type: NodePort
sessionAffinity: None
if you want to use to chrome
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: selenium-node-chrome
labels:
app: selenium-node-chrome
spec:
replicas: 2
selector:
matchLabels:
app: selenium-node-chrome
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: selenium-node-chrome
spec:
volumes:
- name: dshm
emptyDir:
medium: Memory
containers:
- name: selenium-node-chrome
image: selenium/node-chrome-debug:3.141
ports:
- containerPort: 5555
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /dev/shm
name: dshm
env:
- name: HUB_HOST
value: "selenium-hub"
- name: HUB_PORT
value: "4444"
testing python code
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
def check_browser(browser):
driver = webdriver.Remote(
command_executor='http://<IP>:<PORT>/wd/hub',
desired_capabilities=getattr(DesiredCapabilities, browser)
)
driver.get("http://google.com")
assert "google" in driver.page_source
driver.quit()
print("Browser %s checks out!" % browser)
check_browser("CHROME")