I am running solr inside minikube for a POC. I am trying to figure out how to access the solr inside the minikube. As per my knowledge I cant access solr using my host IP, it is only accessible using the minikube IP - 192.168.99.100:8983/solr. My objective is to hit the solr server when accessing it from a remote box.
One of my team mates suggested that I can maybe use something that will forward incoming request to a local IP.
Any suggestions??
Thanks
You would need to expose the solr service using the kubectl expose command for external access.
There are four ways to expose a service for external access in k8s:
LoadBalancer service type which sets the ExternalIP automatically. This is used when there is an external non-k8s, cloud-provider's load-balancer like CGE, AWS or Azure, and this external load-balancer would provide the ExternalIP for the nginx ingress service per https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#publishing-services---service-types.ExternalIPs per https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#external-ips.NodePort: In this approach, the service can be hit from outside the cluster using NodeIP:NodePort/url/of/the/service.Ingress: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/First you need to get URL of your Service for solr.
$ minikube service <service-name> --url
http://192.168.99.100:30000
Here, 30000 is your solr Service NodePort.
Now you need to create SSH tunnel.
For that try this
$ ssh -i ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/id_rsa docker@$(minikube ip) -L \*:30000:0.0.0.0:30000Note: To keep SSH tunneling in Background, add
&at the end of(ssh -i .....) &
Now you can access this solr Service using your Host IP address