Access Minikube Loadbalancer Service From Host Machine - kubernetes

Question

I am trying to learn how to use Kibernetes with Minikube and have the following deployment and service:
---
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: exampleservice
spec:
selector:
app: myapp
ports:
- protocol: "TCP"
# Port accessible inside cluster
port: 8081
# Port to forward to inside the pod
targetPort: 8080
# Port accessible outside cluster
nodePort: 30002
type: LoadBalancer
---
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: myappdeployment
spec:
replicas: 5
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: myapp
spec:
containers:
- name: myapp
image: tutum/hello-world
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
I expect to be able to hit this service from my local machine at
http://192.168.64.2:30002
As per the command: minikube service exampleservice --url but when I try to access this from the browser I get a site cannot be reached error.
Some information that may help debugging:
kubectl get services --all-namespaces:
NAMESPACE NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
default exampleservice LoadBalancer 10.104.248.158 <pending> 8081:30002/TCP 26m
default kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 2h
default user-service-service LoadBalancer 10.110.181.202 <pending> 8080:30001/TCP 42m
kube-system kube-dns ClusterIP 10.96.0.10 <none> 53/UDP,53/TCP,9153/TCP 2h
kube-system kubernetes-dashboard ClusterIP 10.110.65.24 <none> 80/TCP 2h
I am running minikube on OSX.

Answer 1

This is expected.
Do note that LoadBalancer is for cloud to create external load balancer like ALP/NLP in AWS and something similar in GCP/Azure etc.
Update the service as shown here. here i assume 192.168.64.2 is your minikube ip. if not, update it with minikube ip to make it work.
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: exampleservice
spec:
selector:
app: myapp
ports:
- protocol: "TCP"
# Port accessible inside cluster
port: 8081
# Port to forward to inside the pod
targetPort: 80
# Port accessible outside cluster
nodePort: 30002
type: LoadBalancer
externalIPs:
- 192.168.64.2
Now you can access your application at http://192.168.64.2:8081/
If you need to access the application at 30002, you can use it like this
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: exampleservice
spec:
selector:
app: myapp
ports:
- protocol: "TCP"
# Port accessible inside cluster
port: 8081
# Port to forward to inside the pod
targetPort: 80
# Port accessible outside cluster
nodePort: 30002
type: NodePort
Your deployment file does not look correct to me.
delete it
kubectl delete deploy/myappdeployment
use this to create again.
apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
labels:
app: myapp
name: myappdeployment
spec:
replicas: 5
selector:
matchLabels:
app: myapp
strategy: {}
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: myapp
spec:
containers:
- image: tutum/hello-world
name: myapp
ports:
- containerPort: 80

Answer 2

NOTE: Minikube support LoadBalancer services (via minikube tunnel)
you can get the IP and port through which you
can access the service by running
minikube service kubia-http #=> To open a browser with an IP and port
OR
minikube service kubia --url #=> To get the IP and port in the terminal