Internal and External reverse proxy network using kubernetes and traefik, how? - kubernetes

I am trying to learn kubernetes and rancher. Here is what i want to accomplish :
I have few docker containers which i want to service only from my internal network using x.mydomain.com
I have same as above but those containers will be accessible from internet on x.mydomain.com
What i have at the moment is following :
Rancher server
RancherOS to be used for the cluster and as one node
I have made a cluster and added the node from 2. and disabled the nginx controller.
Install traefik app
I have forwarded port 80, 443 to my node.
Added few containers
Added ingress rules
So at the moments it works with the external network. I can write app1.mydomain.com from the internet and everything works as it should.
Now my problem is how can i add the internal network now ?
Do i create another cluster ? Another node on the same host ? Should i install two traefik and then use class in ingress for the internal stuff ?
My idea was to add another ip to the same interface on the rancheros then add another node on the same host but with the other ip but i can’t get it to work. Rancher sees both nodes with the same name and doesn’t use the information i give it i mean --address when creating the node. Of course even when i do this it would require that i setup a DNS server internally so it knows which domains are served internally but i haven’t done that yet since i can’t seem to figure out how to handle the two ip on the host and use them in two different nodes. I am unsure what is require, maybe it’s the wrong route i am going.
I would appreciate if somebody had some ideas.
Update :
I thought i had made it clear what i want from above. There is no YAML at the moment since i don't know how to do it. In my head it's simple what i want. Let me try to cook it down with an example :
I want 2 docker containers with web server to be able to be accessible from the internet on web1.mydomain.com and web2.mydomain.com and at the same time i want 2 docker containers with web server that i can access only from internal network on web3.mydomain.com and web4.mydomain.com.
Additional info :
- I only have one host that will be hosting the services.
- I only have one public IPv4 address.
- I can add additional ip alias to the one host i have.
- I can if needed configure an internal DNS server if required.
/donnib

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What I need to provide to make calls from my k8s cluster?

I have a Kubernetes Cluster with my application running inside of it, also I have a host machine, that my application need to access.
All the infrastructure is located inside the VPN network
How can I setup egress to let my application send requests from the cluster to this host machine (does the Kubernetes Network Policies is an appropriate way to handle this stuff and actually solving this problem?)
(Sorry, if this is too obvious question, haven't found any solutions for that yet, that works)
I'm not sure if I get your question right, but by default no network connectivity is blocked by Kubernetes. I assume you haven't set up any NetworkPolicies, this means all Ingress & Egress communication is open and nothing will block access, at least from K8s perspective.
However, if you have only deployed your application but haven't exposed it yet (with Ingress or Service: LoadBalancer) you will not be able to reach your application from outside the cluster. If you're running on-prem you will need to install MetalLB or some sort of service that allows you to create Services of Type LoadBalancer. The same goes for Ingress however, as the Ingress Controller will need some sort of access in the first place.

I am not able expose a service in kubernetes cluster to the internet

I have created a simple hello world service in my kubernetes cluster. I am not using any cloud provider and have created it in a simple Ubuntu 16.04 server from scratch.
I am able to access the service inside the cluster but now when I want to expose it to the internet, it does not work.
Here is the yml file - deployment.yml
And this is the result of the command - kubectl get all:
Now when I am trying to access the external IP with the port in my browser, i.e., 172.31.8.110:8080, it does not work.
NOTE: I also tried the NodePort Service Type, but then it does not provide any external IP to me. The state remains pending under the "External IP" tab when I do "kubectl get services".
How to resolve this??
I believe you might have a mix of networking problems tied together.
First of all, 172.31.8.110 belongs to a private network, and it is not routable via Internet. So make sure that the location you are trying to browse from can reach the destination (i.e. same private network).
As a quick test you can make an ssh connection to your master node and then check if you can open the page:
curl 172.31.8.110:8080
In order to expose it to Internet, you need a to use a public IP for your master node, not internal one. Then update your Service externalIPs accordingly.
Also make sure that your firewall allows network connections from public Internet to 8080 on master node.
In any case I suggest that you use this configuration for testing purposes only, as it is generally bad idea to use master node for service exposure, because this applies extra networking load on the master and widens security surface. Use something like an Ingress controller (like Nginx or other) + Ingress resource instead.
One option is also to do SSH local port forwarding.
ssh -L <local-port><private-ip-on-your-server><remote-port> <ip-of-your-server>
So in your case for example:
ssh -L 8888:172.31.8.110:8080 <ip-of-your-ubuntu-server>
Then you can simply go to your browser and configure a SOCKS Proxy for localhost:8888.
Then you can access the site on http://localhost:8888 .

Is it possible for me to get a log which shows the source IP of requests hitting a NodePort in my Kubernetes cluster?

I have a container with an exposed port in a pod. When I check the log in the containerized app, the source of the requests is always 192.168.189.0 which is a cluster IP. I need to be able to see the original source IP of the request. Is there any way to do this?
I tried modifying the service (externalTrafficPolicy: Local) instead of Cluster but it still doesn't work. Please help.
When you are working on an application or service that needs to know the source IP address you need to know the topology of the network you are using. This means that you need to know how the different layers of loadbalancers or proxies works to deliver the traffic to your service.
Depending on what cloud provider you are using or the loadbalancer you have in front of your application the source IP address should be on a header of the request. The header you have to look for is X-Fordwared-for, more info here, depending on the proxy or loadbalancer you are using sometimes you need to activate this header to receive the correct IP address.

Change Kubernetes Instance Template to open HTTPS port

I was using NodePort to host a webapp on Google Container Engine (GKE). It allows you to directly point your domains to the node IP address, instead of an expensive Google load balancer. Unfortunately, instances are created with HTTP ports blocked by default, and an update locked down manually changing the nodes, as they are now created using and Instance Group/and an Immutable Instance Template.
I need to open port 443 on my nodes, how do I do that with Kubernetes or GCE? Preferably in an update resistant way.
Related github question: https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/issues/502
Using port 443 on your Kubernetes nodes is not a standard practice. If you look at the docs you and see the kubelet option --service-node-port-range which defaults to 30000-32767. You could change it to 443-32767 or something. Note that every port under 1024 is restricted to root.
In summary, it's not a good idea/practice to run your Kubernetes services on port 443. A more typical scenario would be an external nginx/haproxy proxy that sends traffic to the NodePorts of your service. The other option you mentioned is using a cloud load balancer but you'd like to avoid that due to costs.
Update: A deamonset with a nodeport can handle the port opening for you. nginx/k8s-ingress has a nodeport on 443 which gets exposed by a custom firewall rule. the GCE UI will not show「Allow HTTPS traffic」as checked, because its not using the default rule.
You can do everything you do on the GUI Google Cloud Console using the Cloud SDK, most easily through the Google Cloud Shell. Here is the command for adding a network tag to a running instance. This works, even though the GUI disabled the ability to do so
gcloud compute instances add-tags gke-clusty-pool-0-7696af58-52nf --zone=us-central1-b --tags https-server,http-server
This also works on the beta, meaning it should continue to work for a bit.
See https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/scripting-gcloud for examples on how to automate this. Perhaps consider running on a webhook when downtime is detected. Obviously none of this is ideal.
Alternatively, you can change the templates themselves. With this method you can also add a startup to new nodes, which allows you do do things like fire a webhook with the new IP Address for a round robin low downtime dynamic dns.
Source (he had the opposite problem, his problem is our solution): https://stackoverflow.com/a/51866195/370238
If I understand correctly, if nodes can be destroyed and recreated themselves , how are you going to rest assured that certain service behind port reliably available on production w/o any sort of load balancer which takes care of route orchestration diverting port traffic to new node(s)

OpenShift and hostnetwork=true

I have deployed two POD-s with hostnetwork set to true. When the POD-s are deployed on same OpenShfit node then everything works fine since they can discover each other using node IP.
When the POD-s are deployed on different OpenShift nodes then they cant discover each other, I get no route to host if I want to point one POD to another using node IP. How to fix this?
The uswitch/kiam (https://github.com/uswitch/kiam) service is a good example of a use case.
it has an agent process that runs on the hostnetwork of all worker nodes because it modifies a firewall rule to intercept API requests (from containers running on the host) to the AWS api.
it also has a server process that runs on the hostnetwork to access the AWS api since the AWS api is on a subnet that is only available to the host network.
finally... the agent talks to the server using GRPC which connects directly to one of the IP addresses that are returned when looking up the kiam-server.
so you have pods of the agent deployment running on the hostnetwork of node A trying to connect to kiam server running on the hostnetwork of node B.... which just does not work.
furthermore, this is a private service... it should not be available from outside the network.
If you want the two containers to be share the same physical machine and take advantage of loopback for quick communications, then you would be better off defining them together as a single Pod with two containers.
If the two containers are meant to float over a larger cluster and be more loosely coupled, then I'd recommend taking advantage of the Service construct within Kubernetes (under OpenShift) and using that for the appropriate discovery.
Services are documented at https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/, and along with an internal DNS service (if implemented - common in Kubernetes 1.4 and later) they provide a means to let Kubernetes manage where things are, updating an internal DNS entry in the form of <servicename>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local. So for example, if you set up a Pod with a service named "backend" in the default namespace, the other Pod could reference it as backend.default.svc.cluster.local. The Kubernetes documentation on the DNS portion of this is available at https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/
This also avoids the "hostnetwork=true" complication, and lets OpenShift (or specifically Kubernetes) manage the networking.
If you have to absolutely use hostnetwork, you should be creating router and then use those routers to have the communication between pods. You can create ha proxy based router in opeshift, reference here --https://docs.openshift.com/enterprise/3.0/install_config/install/deploy_router.html