I'd like to use Microk8s for playing around Spring Cloud Data Flow, so I installed Multipass on my Windows 10, and in a virtual machine I run an Ubuntu where Microk8s is installed. I'd like to achieve that, all containers run on Ubuntu, which is a headless Virtualbox VM managed by Multipass, but I'd like to be able to connect to the containers from Windows.
The topology looks like this:
Windows 10:
Ubuntu which runs in Virtualbox
If I log in Ubuntu ifconfig says the following:
multipass@scdf:~/scdf/spring-cloud-dataflow$ ifconfig
cbr0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 0.0.0.0
inet6 fe80::c802:9fff:fea2:93f1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether ca:02:9f:a2:93:f1 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 19890 bytes 6628126 (6.6 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 21413 bytes 13988665 (13.9 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
enp0s3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.2.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.2.255
inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:feba:30bb prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 08:00:27:ba:30:bb txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 208972 bytes 273941063 (273.9 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 24249 bytes 2084939 (2.0 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 157483 bytes 40950239 (40.9 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 157483 bytes 40950239 (40.9 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0microk8s.kubectl get all says the following, it's been executed in Ubuntu:
multipass@scdf:~/scdf/spring-cloud-dataflow$ microk8s.kubectl get all
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/default-http-backend-5d5ff5d4f5-6ttvd 1/1 Running 1 29m
pod/kafka-broker-64445d8596-88rl6 1/1 Running 24 98m
pod/kafka-zk-77bdb5bcbb-qjxfh 1/1 Running 4 98m
pod/mysql-bdd598966-nknwk 0/1 Pending 0 87m
pod/nginx-ingress-microk8s-controller-dh28n 1/1 Running 1 29m
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/default-http-backend ClusterIP 10.152.183.57 <none> 80/TCP 29m
service/kafka ClusterIP 10.152.183.194 <none> 9092/TCP 98m
service/kafka-zk ClusterIP 10.152.183.80 <none> 2181/TCP,2888/TCP,3888/TCP 98m
service/kubernetes ClusterIP 10.152.183.1 <none> 443/TCP 100m
service/mysql ClusterIP 10.152.183.113 <none> 3306/TCP 87m
service/scdf-server LoadBalancer 10.152.183.122 <pending> 80:32548/TCP 80m
service/skipper LoadBalancer 10.152.183.163 <pending> 80:30955/TCP 81m
NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE NODE SELECTOR AGE
daemonset.apps/nginx-ingress-microk8s-controller 1 1 1 1 1 <none> 29m
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
deployment.apps/default-http-backend 1/1 1 1 29m
deployment.apps/kafka-broker 1/1 1 1 98m
deployment.apps/kafka-zk 1/1 1 1 98m
deployment.apps/mysql 0/1 1 0 87m
deployment.apps/scdf-server 0/1 0 0 80m
deployment.apps/skipper 0/1 0 0 82m
NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AGE
replicaset.apps/default-http-backend-5d5ff5d4f5 1 1 1 29m
replicaset.apps/kafka-broker-64445d8596 1 1 1 98m
replicaset.apps/kafka-zk-77bdb5bcbb 1 1 1 98m
replicaset.apps/mysql-bdd598966 1 1 0 87m
replicaset.apps/scdf-server-6988d7795f 1 0 0 80m
replicaset.apps/skipper-5957946bf5 1 0 0 82mAs you can see there are two <Pending> status for external IP addresses. I believe those should be exposed in order to be able to connect to.
I did what I found in this help, but I couldn't reach that the server gets external IP.
What I'm doing here wrong? Is Microk8s able to expose its containers?
You are right, if you want to connect to your cluster from outside, you have to expose service as LoadBalancer or NodePort.
Unfortunately, as you are not using any cloud provider which support LoadBalancer (like AWS or GCP which provides External-IPs) you will be not able to expose service as LoadBalancer (service stuck on Pending state). As describe here:
LoadBalancer: Exposes the Service externally using a cloud provider’s load balancer. NodePort and ClusterIP Services, to which the external load balancer routes, are automatically created.
As default in Microk8s you can use only services like NodePort and ClusterIP.
With your setup you can use NodePort, ClusterIP with Ingress or MetalLB. If you will use Ingress you have to remember to enable ingress and dns addons in Microk8s. It can be don by $ microk8s.enable dns ingress.
In short. Options you have are:
NodePortEndpoints in your YAMLs or use MetalLB and point Endpoints.In Addition you can check similar case here and here.
Hope it helps.