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I am trying to deploy a service and ingress for a demo service (from 'Kubernetes in Action') to an AWS EKS cluster in which the traefik ingress controller has been Helm installed.

I am able to access the traefik dashboard from the traefik.example.com hostname after manually adding the IP address of the AWS ELB provisioned by traefik to that hostname in my local /etc/hosts file.

If I describe the service and ingress of the traefik-dashboard:

$ kubectl describe svc -n kube-system traefik-dashboard
Name:              traefik-dashboard
Namespace:         kube-system
Labels:            app=traefik
                   chart=traefik-1.52.6
                   heritage=Tiller
                   release=traefik
Annotations:       <none>
Selector:          app=traefik,release=traefik
Type:              ClusterIP
IP:                10.100.164.81
Port:              <unset>  80/TCP
TargetPort:        8080/TCP
Endpoints:         172.31.27.70:8080
Session Affinity:  None
Events:            <none>

$ kubectl describe ing -n kube-system traefik-dashboard
Name:             traefik-dashboard
Namespace:        kube-system
Address:
Default backend:  default-http-backend:80 (<none>)
Rules:
Host                 Path  Backends
----                 ----  --------
traefik.example.com
                        traefik-dashboard:80 (172.31.27.70:8080)
Annotations:
Events:  <none>

The service and ingress controller seem to be using the running traefik-575cc584fb-v4mfn pod in the kube-system namespace.

Given this info and looking at the traefik docs, I try to expose a demo service through its ingress with the following YAML:

apiVersion: apps/v1beta2
kind: ReplicaSet
metadata:
name: kubia
spec:
replicas: 3
selector:
    matchLabels:
    app: kubia
template:
    metadata:
    labels:
        app: kubia
    spec:
    containers:
    - name: kubia
        image: luksa/kubia

---

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: kubia
namespace: default
spec:
selector:
    app: traefik
    release: traefik
ports:
- name: web
    port: 80
    targetPort: 8080

---

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: kubia
namespace: default
spec:
rules:
- host: kubia.int
    http:
    paths:
    - path: /
        backend:
        serviceName: kubia
        servicePort: web

After applying this, I am unable to access the kubia service from the kubia.int hostname after manually adding the IP address of the AWS ELB provisioned by traefik to that hostname in my local /etc/hosts file. Instead, I get a Service Unavailable in the response. Describing the created resources shows some differing info.

$ kubectl describe svc kubia
Name:              kubia
Namespace:         default
Labels:            <none>
Annotations:       kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration:
                    {"apiVersion":"v1","kind":"Service","metadata":{"annotations":{},"name":"kubia","namespace":"default"},"spec":{"ports":[{"name":"web","por...
Selector:          app=traefik,release=traefik
Type:              ClusterIP
IP:                10.100.142.243
Port:              web  80/TCP
TargetPort:        8080/TCP
Endpoints:         <none>
Session Affinity:  None
Events:            <none>

$ kubectl describe ing kubia
Name:             kubia
Namespace:        default
Address:
Default backend:  default-http-backend:80 (<none>)
Rules:
Host       Path  Backends
----       ----  --------
kubia.int
            /   kubia:web (<none>)
Annotations:
kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration:  {"apiVersion":"extensions/v1beta1","kind":"Ingress","metadata":{"annotations":{},"name":"kubia","namespace":"default"},"spec":{"rules":[{"host":"kubia.int","http":{"paths":[{"backend":{"serviceName":"kubia","servicePort":"web"},"path":"/"}]}}]}}

Events:  <none>

I also notice that the demo kubia service has no endpoints, and the corresponding ingress shows no available backends.

Another thing I notice is that the demo kubia service and ingress is in the default namespace, while the traefik-dashboard service and ingress are in the kube-system namespace.

Does anything jump out to anyone? Any suggestions on the best way to diagnose it?

Many thanks in advance!