Kubernetes Loadbalancer redirecting to HTTPs when application is on port 80 - kubernetes

Question

I've deployed a series of deployments and services to a Kubernetes cluster with a load balancer. When I try to access my app this does not work as my application is exposed on port 80 but the URL is always redirected to port 443 (HTTPS). I suspect this is to do with the fact that the cluster IP is on port 443.
Any ideas on how I can fix this?
db NodePort 10.245.175.203 <none> 5432:30029/TCP 25m
kubernetes ClusterIP 10.245.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 8m
redis NodePort 10.245.197.157 <none> 6379:31277/TCP 25m
web LoadBalancer 10.245.126.122 123.12.123.123 80:31430/TCP 25m

Answer 1

This is likely due to your application itself redirecting to port 443. What type of application is it?
This service exposed on port 443 has nothing to do with your application:
kubernetes ClusterIP 10.245.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 8m
It's basically an internal service that allows you to access the kube-apiserver within your cluster.
You could try just setting up the LoadBalancer to listen on port 443 directly. Only you would have to port 80 traffic wouldn't work. If you want the port 80 redirects to work I suggest you use an Ingress controller like nginx. Something like this:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: your-ingress
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/force-ssl-redirect: "true"
spec:
tls:
- hosts:
- yourhostname.com
secretName: tls-secret
rules:
- host: yourhostname.com
http:
paths:
- path: /
backend:
serviceName: web
servicePort: 443
You will also have to create a TLS secret holding your cert and key:
$ kubectl create secret tls tls-secret --key /tmp/tls.key --cert /tmp/tls.crt