GKE Kubernetes external domain provider - kubernetes

I built simple cluster in GKE with two services using this tutorial
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials/hello-app
After finishing that I'm able to access my service using external IP address. So I bought domain for using this IP address. After setup A record in DNS settings to that IP address, domain doesn't work, it still loads and then show ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT. Do I need to do something in google console, or how I can make this IP public and accessed through domain?

Please refer to official documentation, which describes steps you need to take to configure domain names with static IP.
There are steps that you need to cover:
Go to NETWORKING section at GCP console, than VPC Network -> External IP addresses to ensure that you are running static IP address, not ephemeral one.
Go to Network services -> Cloud DNS. You need to create DNS zone, where at DNS name line you have to wright your domain name. After creation you will see Add record set, where you need to paste your external IP address.
There is also a good tutorial at YouTube with setting up custom domain on GCP. Let me know if it works for you.

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Configure network access to MongoDB cluster from Azure App Service

I'm trying to configure network access of a MongoDB cluster to allow connections from an Azure App Service. I found the outbound IP addresses of my App Service in the Azure portal (see Azure docs). And entered them in the IP access list according to MongoDB Atlas docs. I appended "/32" to the IP addresses to allow only a single host (CIDR notation).
However, when trying to connect on App Service start I get an error indicating to check the IP whitelist of the MongoDB cluster.
This actually seems to be the problem, because adding 0.0.0.0/0 (allow access from anywhere) solves the problem.
What could be the problem here?
I double checked the outbound IP addresses of the Azure App Service and the IP access list from the MongoDB Cluster.
What I did was indeed the answer to another question, so I think I'm missing something...
Actually /32 is not a valid CIDR in Azure. The minimum size of a single VNET is /29.
This will restrict your range to only 3 IPs (not 8 as you would expect), as Azure will reserve the first four IPs and the last one for internal routing.
Please consider also that if you are running the MongoDB cluster inside a private network and it is not exposed externally via a network appliance (such as Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Front Door or Traffic Manager), you will need to enable VNET Integration on Azure Web App side.
If this is your case, navigate through your App in the portal and go into the "Networking" blade.
Here you can add VNET Integration, but you should consider that in this case the minimum size of your subnet can only be /28 (you cannot add a smaller subnet)
I only added the IP addresses listed in the "outbound IP addresses" property of my Azure App Service. After adding the IP addresses listed in the "Additional Outbound IP Addresses" property also the App Service connects to the MongoDB cluster successfully.
This is somewhat surprising to me because the documentation on when outbound IPs change says that the "...set of outbound IP addresses for your app changes when you perform one of the following actions:
Delete an app and recreate it in a different resource group (deployment unit may change).
Delete the last app in a resource group and region combination and recreate it (deployment unit may change).
Scale your app between the lower tiers (Basic, Standard, and Premium), the PremiumV2, and the PremiumV3 tier (IP addresses may be added to or subtracted from the set).
..."
None of the above actions happened. šŸ™„

Access ingress IP from a pod

I have got an authentication service. This service is behind an ingress (GKE in my case) for external API calls. When the signup function of the authentication service is called, it will send an email for email verification purpose. The link in this email has to point to the IP of ingress. In order to achieve that, my authentication service has to know the IP of the ingress. How can this be configured dynamically in k8s without storing the ingress IP[ address in a config file?
Many thanks in advance
Regards
Since by default GKE allocates ephemeral external IP address the simplest solution is to reserve static ip address. This can be done with new one or you can promote existing ephemeral IP to static one. With this solution the IP address is known in advance but the drawback of that the IP would have to be hardcoded into the application.
To avoid hardcoding this you could use nslookup to find ip address for this specific host. With this you should update your dns records with an address type record to point to you reserved static IP address. Please refer to your DNS service`s documentation on setting DNS A records to configure your domain name.
For more reading check how to configure static ip address.
The alternative way would be also to access the Kubernetes REST API directly and fetch the IP address from there. This depending on your architecture and application design will required appropriate authentication towards API.

How to access REST APIs hosted locally on Alexa

I am developing a custom Alexa Skill and have a requirement where I want Alexa to access REST APIs that are hosted locally on http://localhost:8080? Any idea how to do this?
Thanks!
If you really want to do this, and Iā€™m assuming you are hosting the skill on AWS Lambda, it would involve quite a bit of work.
Your local endpoints need to be accessible from outside of your network, which requires port forwarding in your router to your machine where the endpoints are hosted. This needs to be configured in your router.
An easier way is to deploy your project containing the API to something like Heroku, which can be done easily. They give you a domain and make the endpoints accessible to Lambda. This should be possible within their free tier.
Here' a link to a pretty good article about how IP addresses work.
Allowing a device sitting on your local network (eg. a laptop computer or Raspberry Pi connected to your wifi) to be accessed from outside your local network (eg. from a service running on AWS) will involve mapping 2 separate IP addresses:
The IP address assigned to your router (your public IP)
The private IP addresses assigned by your router to your devices (laptop, iPhone, RPi, etc).
You have a couple options for allowing your router's IP (#1) to be accessible from outside your local network:
a. Pay your internet provider to provide you with a static IP address
b. Use a dynamic DNS service such as DuckDNS or No-IP.
Once you have a fixed public IP that can be used to access your router, you will then need to map a port on your router (#1) to the device IP on your local network (#2). This is usually referred to as "port forwarding". Most routers will support configuring this. In effect, your tell your router "when you get a message to : pass it to my laptop :"
Your local private IP address will typically have an IP value like 192.168.0.23 (where the 23 can be anything from 1 to 254).
An outside IP will start with something other than 192. Refer to the first link above regarding IP ranges.
You can google "port forwarding" and "public IP" for more info on how IP addresses and port forwarding work, but hopefully this will help get you started. It may seem a bit complicated at first, but if I can understand it, then anyone can :-)

access the google compute server with a subdomain rather than external IP address

I created a VM instance and deployed my application. I can access the application through the given external IP address, but I want to access it with some domain, just like openshift provides a domain AAA.rhcloud.com, which we can use the access the projects from the VM.
Is it possible to do it easily without normal DNS and CNAME route?
Thanks,
Manish
Most IP addresses have a DNS address than you can find out with reverse DNS:
$ dig +short -x 104.197.1.2
2.1.197.104.bc.googleusercontent.com.
As you can see on GCE you can reverse the IP address and append bc.googleusercontent.com. Of course this is no easier to remember than the IP address itself.
Between GCE instances in the same project, you can also use INSTANCE_NAME.c.PROJECT_ID.internal, but this won't work from outside GCE.

How to find IP of my server for Microsoft's Cloud

I created tcp ip application and published it to cloud of Microsoft, but for now I don't know how to find the IP of my server.
Or in another words, how can I find the IP at which implemented role was deployed?
Depends on whether you are trying to get the public IP or the private IP of the server.
If you want to reach this server from outside of the Azure network, then you are looking for the public IP. In this case you must define an InputEndpoint for your role. You'll be required to specify a FQDN for your app. You can find the IP address of this FQDN using the usual methods like tracert, ping, etc.
If you want to reach this server from within the Azure network, typically you'd want some other role in your tenant to communicate with this server, then you'd need to define an InternalEndpoint for your server. You can then use the ServiceRuntime library to discover the private endpoint of your role instance.
Enabling Communication for Role Instances in Windows Azure is an excellent resource to get a better understanding of how this works.