What is the cluster IP in Kubernetes?

10/29/2015

I have created a cluster of three nodes: one master, two minions. How to check the cluster IP in Kubernetes? Is it the IP of the master node?

-- Madhurima Mishra
google-kubernetes-engine
kubernetes
kubernetes-networking

4 Answers

11/2/2015

ClusterIP can mean 2 things: a type of service which is only accessible within a Kubernetes cluster, or the internal ("virtual") IP of components within a Kubernetes cluster. Assuming you're asking about finding the internal IP of a cluster, it can be accessed in 3 ways (using the simple-nginx example):

  1. Via command line kubectl utility:

    $ kubectl describe service my-nginx
    Name:           my-nginx
    Namespace:      default
    Labels:         run=my-nginx
    Selector:       run=my-nginx
    Type:           LoadBalancer
    IP:         10.123.253.27
    LoadBalancer Ingress:   104.197.129.240
    Port:           <unnamed>   80/TCP
    NodePort:       <unnamed>   30723/TCP
    Endpoints:      10.120.0.6:80
    Session Affinity:   None
    No events.
  2. Via the kubernetes API (here I've used kubectl proxy to route through localhost to my cluster):

    $ kubectl proxy &
    $ curl -G http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/default/services/my-nginx
    {
      "kind": "Service",
      "apiVersion": "v1",
      "metadata": <omitted>,
      "spec": {
        "ports": [
          {
            "protocol": "TCP",
            "port": 80,
            "targetPort": 80,
            "nodePort": 30723
          }
        ],
        "selector": {
          "run": "my-nginx"
        },
        "clusterIP": "10.123.253.27",
        "type": "LoadBalancer",
        "sessionAffinity": "None"
      },
      "status": {
        "loadBalancer": {
          "ingress": [
            {
              "ip": "104.197.129.240"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
    
  3. Via the

    lt;NAME>_SERVICE_HOST environment variable within a Kubernetes container (in this example my-nginx-yczg9 is the name of a pod in the cluster):

    $ kubectl exec my-nginx-yczg9 -- sh -c 'echo $MY_NGINX_SERVICE_HOST'
    10.123.253.27

More details on service IPs can be found in the Services in Kubernetes documentation, and the previously mentioned simple-nginx example is a good example of exposing a service outside your cluster with the LoadBalancer service type.

-- Tim Allclair
Source: StackOverflow

6/16/2017

Run this

$ kubectl cluster-info

It shows result like this where you can see the Kubernetes master IP

Kubernetes Cluster IP

-- Abu Shoeb
Source: StackOverflow

10/29/2015

cluster IP only allocated to service, it is Kubernetes's internal ip。

-- jolestar
Source: StackOverflow

6/16/2019

Cluster IP is a virtual IP that is allocated by the K8s to a service. It is K8s internal IP.

A Cluster IP makes it accessible from any of the Kubernetes cluster’s nodes. The use of virtual IP addresses for this purpose makes it possible to have several pods expose the same port on the same node – All of these pods will be accessible via a unique IP address.

This IP is stable and never changes in the service lifecycle(unless deleted explicitly).

2 different pods can communicate using this IP, though I recommend using cluster DNS service.

-- Vaibhav Jain
Source: StackOverflow