I am trying to set up TLS for a MessageSight service that has been installed on IBM Cloud Private(ICP)
ICP and MessageSight have already been installed and I was trying to see how the MessageSight has been exposed as a service (Is that a NodePort, LoadBalancer or Externalname)
$kubectl get services
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
messagesight-messagesight-svc ClusterIP 10.0.241.72 168.xx.xx.xxx 9089/TCP,1883/TCP,16102/TCP 9d
messagesight-messagesightui-svc ClusterIP 10.0.139.199 168.xx.xx.xxx 9087/TCP 9d
The type states it is a ClusterIP however it has an external IP. I always thought an external IP is going to empty if the service type is ClusterIP. If it were a LoadBalancer i would expect to see the external IP.
Describing the service does not provide any additional information
kubectl describe svc messagesight-messagesight-svc
Name: messagesight-messagesight-svc
Labels: app=messagesight
chart=messagesight
heritage=Tiller
release=messagesight
Annotations: <none>
Selector: app=messagesight,release=messagesight
Type: ClusterIP
IP: 10.0.241.72
External IPs: 168.xx.xx.xxx
Port: adminport 9089/TCP
TargetPort: 9089/TCP
Endpoints: 10.1.66.1:9089
Port: messaging-1883 1883/TCP
TargetPort: 1883/TCP
Endpoints: 10.1.66.1:1883
Port: messaging-16102 16102/TCP
TargetPort: 16102/TCP
Endpoints: 10.1.66.1:16102
Session Affinity: None
Events: <none>
I am able to access the service via the external-IP and ports and am puzzled as to how it is working.
I installed a Jenkins setup to make observations and the output looks good and makes sense to me
$kubectl get services
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
jenkins-ibm-jenki NodePort 10.0.241.156 <none> 8080:31058/TCP,50000:31155/TCP 1d
I can see the type is NodePort and it doesn't have a corresponding externalIP.
The description of the service also give me clear insights that this service is of type NodePort
$kubectl describe svc jenkins-ibm-jenki
Name: jenkins-ibm-jenki
Labels: app=jenkins-ibm-jenki
chart=ibm-jenkins-dev-1.0.2
component=jenkins-jenkins-master
heritage=Tiller
release=jenkins
Annotations: helm.sh/created=1559696400
Selector: app=jenkins-ibm-jenki,component=jenkins-jenkins-master
Type: NodePort
IP: 10.0.241.156
Port: http 8080/TCP
TargetPort: 8080/TCP
NodePort: http 31058/TCP
Endpoints: 10.1.66.89:8080
Port: slavelistener 50000/TCP
TargetPort: 50000/TCP
NodePort: slavelistener 31155/TCP
Endpoints: 10.1.66.89:50000
Session Affinity: None
External Traffic Policy: Cluster
Events: <none>
As stated in documentation:
In the Service spec, externalIPs can be specified along with any of the ServiceTypes