Can't access service in my local kubernetes cluster using NodePort - kubernetes

Question

I have a manifest as the following
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: my-redis
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: my-redis
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: my-redis
spec:
containers:
- name: my-redis
image: redis
ports:
- name: redisport1
containerPort: 6379
hostPort: 6379
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: redis-service
labels:
app: my-redis
spec:
type: NodePort
selector:
name: my-redis
ports:
- name: redisport1
port: 6379
targetPort: 6379
nodePort: 30036
protocol: TCP
This is a sample that reproduces my problem. My intention here is to create a simple cluster that has a pod with a redis container in it, and it should be exposed to my localhost. Still, get services gives me the following output:
redis-service NodePort 10.107.233.66 <none> 6379:30036/TCP 10s
If I swap NodePort with LoadBalancer, I get an external-ip but still port doesn't work.
Can you help me identify why I'm failing to map the 6379 port to my localhost, please?
Thanks,

Answer 1

In order to access your app through node port, you have to use this url
http://{node ip}:{node port}.
If you are using minikube, your minikube ip is the node ip. You can retrieve it using minikube ip command.
You can also use minikube service redis-service --url command to get the url to access your application through node port.

Answer 2

For anybody who's interested in the question, I found the problem. After Ijaz's fix, I also needed to change the selector to match the label in the pod, it was a typo on my end!
pod has "app=my-redis" tag, but Service selector had "name=my-redis". Matching them fixed the access problem.

Answer 3

Dont need the hostPort:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: my-redis
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: my-redis
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: my-redis
spec:
containers:
- name: my-redis
image: redis
ports:
- name: redisport1
containerPort: 6379
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: redis-service
labels:
app: my-redis
spec:
type: NodePort
selector:
name: my-redis
ports:
- name: redisport1
port: 6379
targetPort: 6379
nodePort: 30036
protocol: TCP
now the nodePort 30036 can be used to access the service on any worker node.
If the cluster node is somewhere else and you want to make the port available on you local client , then just do kubectl port forward
kubectl port-forward svc/redis-service 6379:6379
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/port-forward-access-application-cluster/
Notes:
On-prem installs of k8s dont support service type of load balancer
ClusterIP is the IP on the pod network
Node IP is the IP of some machine that is running the k8s cluster