in my env file for my angular frontend I have the API endpoint set as localhost:8000 because my API listens on that port, but it is in a separate pod is this correct or am I meant to use the name I gave to the backend service in the deployment file. Second, how do I connect the backend service is how I have it done in the deployment file below correct?
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: ai-api
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: ai-api
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: ai-api
spec:
nodeSelector:
"beta.kubernetes.io/os": linux
containers:
- name: ai-api
image: test.azurecr.io/api:v5
resources:
requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 128Mi
limits:
cpu: 250m
memory: 256Mi
ports:
- containerPort: 8000
name: ai-api
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: ai-api
spec:
ports:
- port: 8000
selector:
app: ai-api
---
# Frontend
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: ai-front
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: ai-front
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: ai-front
spec:
nodeSelector:
"beta.kubernetes.io/os": linux
containers:
- name: ai-front
image: test.azurecr.io/front-end:v5.1
resources:
requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 128Mi
limits:
cpu: 250m
memory: 256Mi
ports:
- containerPort: 80
env:
- name: api
value: "ai-api"
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: ai-front
spec:
type: LoadBalancer
ports:
- port: 80
#Tells loadbalancer which deployment to use
selector:
app: ai-front
You mentioned that you have API endpoint set as localhost:8000
for your frontend which is not correct as localhost is referring to the same pod from which the request is send from (so it means "connect to myself"). Change it to ai-api:8000
. And also make sure that your api server is listening on 0.0.0.0:8000
and not on localhost:8000
.
I also see that you are passing the name of your backend service to the frontend pod:
env:
- name: api
value: "ai-api"
and if you are using this env to connect to your backend app it would stand in contradiction with your earlier statement that you are connecting to localhost:8000.