No ingress address on minikube Kubernetes cluster with nginx ingress controller - kubernetes

Question

I've got the following:
ingress.yaml
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: abcxyz
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
spec:
rules:
- host: abcxyz
http:
paths:
- path: /a/
backend:
serviceName: service-a
servicePort: 80
- path: /b/
backend:
serviceName: service-b
servicePort: 80
Output of kubectl describe ingress abcxyz:
Name: abcxyz
Namespace: default
Address:
Default backend: default-http-backend:80 (<none>)
Rules:
Host Path Backends
---- ---- --------
abcxyz
/a/ service-a:80 (<none>)
/b/ service-b:80 (<none>)
Annotations:
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message
---- ------ ---- ---- -------
Normal CREATE 16m nginx-ingress-controller Ingress default/abcxyz
Normal UPDATE 12m (x2 over 15m) nginx-ingress-controller Ingress default/abcxyz
Why is the address empty? I've installed the 'nginx ingress controller' through helm using helm install stable/nginx-ingress - and all of it's pods relevent seem to be running fine.
How can I provide access to the ingress?

Answer 1

The solution for me was:
minikube addons enable ingress

Answer 2

Type
minikube ip
to retrieve the master IP. for example:
bash-3.2$ minikube ip
192.168.1.100
The command that provides information about the kubernetes cluster is:
bash-3.2$ kubectl cluster-info
Kubernetes master is running at https://192.168.1.100:8443
KubeDNS is running at https://192.168.1.100:8443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.
You can test the ingress controller from the host machine using curl:
bash-3.2$ curl http://192.168.1.100:80
default backend - 404
Finally, add a host entry to be able to use a name to refer to the cluster IP address
In /etc/hosts add:
192.168.1.100 abcxyz

Answer 3

There appears to be a bug in https://helm.nginx.com/stable that makes it not bind to the Address in minikube.
The solution that worked for me was to instead use https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx
The installation instructions for the kubernetes version of NGINX ingress are here: https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/deploy/, but here's the gist:
Helm
helm repo add ingress-nginx https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx
helm repo update
helm install ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx
Minikube
minikube addons enable ingress
microk8s
microk8s enable ingress
Also to note, the "bare metal" installation instructions use a NodePort. But most IaaS providers have their own way of assigning IPs, so they have specific instructions for each provider.
# Source: ingress-nginx/templates/controller-service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
annotations:
labels:
helm.sh/chart: ingress-nginx-3.33.0
app.kubernetes.io/name: ingress-nginx
app.kubernetes.io/instance: ingress-nginx
app.kubernetes.io/version: 0.47.0
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
app.kubernetes.io/component: controller
name: ingress-nginx-controller
namespace: ingress-nginx
spec:
type: NodePort
ports:
- name: http
port: 80
protocol: TCP
targetPort: http
- name: https
port: 443
protocol: TCP
targetPort: https
selector:
app.kubernetes.io/name: ingress-nginx
app.kubernetes.io/instance: ingress-nginx
app.kubernetes.io/component: controller