In my front end (deployed as an AWS ECS service), I have a fetch request to an AWS Route 53 host name which is directed to a backend ECS service. Now I would like to deploy this infrastructure locally in a Kubernetes Minikube cluster. If the front-end pod and the back-end pod are connected together using a Kubernetes Service, should I replace that fetch's method argument to the DNS name of the back-end pod?
fetch(Route_53_Route)
to
fetch(DNS_name_of_backend_pod)
1- Creating the backend Service object:
he key to connecting a frontend to a backend is the backend Service.
A Service creates a persistent IP address and DNS name entry so that the backend microservice can always be reached.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: hello
spec:
selector:
app: hello
tier: backend
ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 80
targetPort: http
2- Creating the frontend:
Now that you have your backend, you can create a frontend that connects to the backend.
The frontend connects to the backend worker Pods by using the DNS name given to the backend Service.
The DNS name is "hello", which is the value of the name field in the preceding Service configuration file.
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I want to access my backend pods using an internal Kubernetes dns name. Instead of using http://somepodip:8080/get I want to use http://backend:8080/get to use my backend.
I am currently running my backend pods and have hooked them up to a service.
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: backend
spec:
selector:
app: myapp-backend
ports:
- name: http
protocol: TCP
port: 8080
targetPort: 8080
This does assign my pods to the backend service. But when I try to use a frontend pod with http://backend/get , it does not find the resource.
Am I incorrectly configuring the service?
Your service seems to be ok, the issue could be possibly because your frontend is not server rendered, which means that your browser is trying to lookup for a name backend, in that case you cannot rely on kubernetes service name as your browser does not recognize it as a valid hostname.
If you want to access externally by instead of ip, you want to use names, check how to setup a ingress entry https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#what-is-ingress
I have a service (CusterIP) like following which is exposing ports of backend POD.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: fsimulator
namespace: myns
spec:
type: ClusterIP
selector:
application: oms
ports:
- name: s-port
port: 9780
- name: b-port
port: 8780
Front end POD should be able to connect to Backend POD using service. Should we replace hostname with service name to connect from Frontend POD to Backend POD ?
I have to supply the service name and port through environment variables to Frontend POD container.
The enviroment variables are set using configMap.
Is it enough to give service name fsimulator as hostname to connect to ?
How to give service if is created inside namespace ?
Thanks
Check out this documentation. The internal service PORT / IP pairs for active services are indeed passed into the containers by default.
As the documentation also says, it is possible (recommended) to use a DNS cluster add-on for service discovery. Accessing service.namespace from outside / inside a service will resolve to the correct service route (or just service from inside the namespace). This is usually the right path to take.
Built-in service discovery is a huge perk of using Kubernetes, use the available tools if at all possible!
I've installed minikube to learn kubernetes a bit better.
I've deployed some apps and services which have ip's in a range of 10.x.x.x (private ip). I can expose my services on minikube and visit them in my browser. But I want to use the private IP's and not exposing it.
How can I visit (vpn/proxy wize) private ip's of services in minikube?
Minikube is Kubernetes with only one node and master server running on this node.
It provides the possibility to learn how it works with minimum hardware required.
It's ideal for testing purposes and seamless running on a laptop. Minikube is still software with mature
network stack from Kubernetes. This means that ports are exposed to services and virtually services are
communicating with pods.
To understand what is communicating, let me explain what ClusterIP does - it exposes the service on an internal IP in the cluster. This type makes service only reachable from within the cluster.
Cluster IP you can get by the command:
kubectl get services test_service
So, after you create a new service, you like to establish connections to ClusterAPI.
Basically, there are three ways to connect to backend resource:
1/ use kube-proxy - this proxy reflects services as defined in the Kubernetes API and simple stream TCP and UDP to backend or set of them in advanced configuration. Service cluster IPs and ports are currently found through Docker compatible environment variables specifying ports opened by the service proxy. There is an optional addon that provides cluster DNS for these cluster IPs. The user must create a service with the apiserver API to configure the proxy.
Example shows how can we use nodeselectors to define connection to port 5000 on ClusterIP - config.yaml may consist of:
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: jenkins-discovery
namespace: ci spec:
type: ClusterIP
selector:
app: master
ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 50000
targetPort: 50000
name: slaves
2/ use port forwarding to access application - first check if kubectl command-line tool to communicate with your minikube cluster works, then if true find service port from ClusterIP configuration.
kubectl get svc | grep test_service
Let assume service test_service works on port 5555 so to do port forwarding run the command:
kubectl port-forward pods/test_service 5555:5555
After that, you service will be available on the localhost:5555
3/ If you are familiar with the concept of pods networking you cat declare public ports in the pod’s manifest file. A user can connect to pods network defining manifest:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: nginx-deployment
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
replicas: 3
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nginx
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx:1.7.9
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
When the container is starting with manifest file like above host port TCP port 8080 will be forwarded to pod port 8080.
Please keep in the mind that ClusterIP is the use of a lot of services regarding to proper works of the cluster. I think it is not good practice to deal with ClusterIP as a regular network service - on worst scenario, it breaks a cluster soon, by invalid internal network state of connections.
I created an headless service:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: myapp-service-headless
spec:
ports:
- port: 80
selector:
app: myapp
clusterIP: None
From Kubernetes dashboard I can see its Internal endpoints:
myapp-service-headless:80 TCP
myapp-service-headless:0 TCP
In this application, I also set internal endpoint to:
http://myapp-service-headless
But from outside, how can I access its IP to connect API?
For example, my Kubernetes' IP is 192.168.99.100, then connect to 192.168.99.100 is okay?
Now the service status from Kubernetes dashboard
Services
Service Details
There is two option to expose the service outside, you can use the ingress controller to connect to the server.
The simple method is change your service type to NodePort, then you should be able access server using NodeIP and service external port number.
here is the more info.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#type-nodeport
I use Google Container Engine with Kubernetes.
I have created an https load balancer which terminates ssl and forwards traffic to k8s cluster nodes. The problem is I see no option to whitelist/filter incoming ip addresses. Is there any?
It sounds like you've set up a load balancer outside of Kubernetes. You may want to consider using a Kubernetes Service set to type: LoadBalancer. That type of service will give you an external IP that load balances to all of your Pods and can be easily restricted to whitelist IPs using the loadBalancerSourceRanges setting. Here is the example from the docs at https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/configure-cloud-provider-firewall/
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: myapp
spec:
ports:
- port: 8765
targetPort: 9376
selector:
app: example
type: LoadBalancer
loadBalancerIP: 79.78.77.76
loadBalancerSourceRanges:
- 130.211.204.1/32
- 130.211.204.2/32
If you're using gce controller is not yet possible[1], just nginx controller[2] accept whitelist ip.
[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/issues/566
[2] https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/blob/188c64aaac17ef29400e0f143b9aed7770e32fee/controllers/nginx/configuration.md#whitelist-source-range