How to expose multiple port using a load balancer services in Kubernetes - kubernetes

Question

I have created a cluster using the google cloud platform (container engine) and deployed a pod using the following YAML file:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: deployment-name
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
name: pod-name
labels:
app: app-label
spec:
containers:
- name: container-name
image: gcr.io/project-id/image-name
resources:
requests:
cpu: 1
ports:
- name: port80
containerPort: 80
- name: port443
containerPort: 443
- name: port6001
containerPort: 6001
Then I want to create a service that enables the pod to listen on all these ports. I know that the following YAML file works to create a service that listens on one port:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: service-name
spec:
ports:
- port: 80
targetPort: 80
selector:
app: app-label
type: LoadBalancer
However when I want the pod to listen on multiple ports like this, it doesn't work:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: service-name
spec:
ports:
- port: 80
targetPort: 80
- port: 443
targetPort: 443
- port: 6001
targetPort: 6001
selector:
app: app-label
type: LoadBalancer
How can I make my pod listen to multiple ports?

Answer 1

You have two options:
You could have multiple services, one for each port. As you pointed out, each service will end up with a different IP address
You could have a single service with multiple ports. In this particular case, you must give all ports a name.
In your case, the service becomes:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: service-name
spec:
ports:
- name: http
port: 80
targetPort: 80
- name: https
port: 443
targetPort: 443
- name: something
port: 6001
targetPort: 6001
selector:
app: app-label
type: LoadBalancer
This is necessary so that endpoints can be disambiguated.