In Kubernetes cluster I have created Endpoint pointing to Kafka cluster. Endpoint created successfully.
Name - kafka
Endpoint - X.X.X.X:9092
In my Spring Boot application's deployment yaml I have kept environment variable BROKER_IP. For this environment variable I have pointed:
env:
- name: BROKER_IP
value: kafkaThe POD is in Error state. In my bootstrap-server I am getting kafka and not the actual Endpoint that was created. Any thoughts?
UPDATE - Just tried kafka:9092 and it worked. So wondering does the ENDPOINT maps to IP only and not the Port? Is my understanding correct??
Is it possible that you forgot to create the Service object matching the Endpoints? Because you are providing the ip-port pairs yourself the Service would need to be selectorless.
This works for me:
kind: Endpoints
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: kafka
subsets:
- addresses: [{ip: "1.2.3.4"}]
ports: [{port: 9092}]
---
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: kafka
spec:
ports: [{port: 9092}]Testing it:
$ kubectl run kafka-dns-test --image=busybox --attach --rm --restart=Never -- nslookup kafka
If you don't see a command prompt, try pressing enter.
Server: 10.96.0.10
Address: 10.96.0.10:53
Name: kafka.default.svc.cluster.local
Address: 10.96.220.40Successful lookup, ignore extra *** Can't find xxx: No answer messages
Also, because there is a Service object you get some environment variables in your Pods (without having to declare them):
KAFKA_PORT='tcp://10.96.220.40:9092'
KAFKA_PORT_9092_TCP='tcp://10.96.220.40:9092'
KAFKA_PORT_9092_TCP_ADDR='10.96.220.40'
KAFKA_PORT_9092_TCP_PORT='9092'
KAFKA_PORT_9092_TCP_PROTO='tcp'
KAFKA_SERVICE_HOST='10.96.220.40'
KAFKA_SERVICE_PORT='9092'But the most flexible way to use a Service is still to use the dns name (kafka in this case).