I have a local kubernetes cluster on my local docker desktop.
This is how my kubernetes service looks like when I do a kubectl describe service
Name: helloworldsvc
Namespace: test
Labels: app=helloworldsvc
Annotations: kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration:
{"apiVersion":"v1","kind":"Service","metadata":{"annotations":{},"labels":{"app":"helloworldsvc"},"name":"helloworldsvc","namespace":"test...
Selector: app=helloworldapp
Type: ClusterIP
IP: 10.108.182.240
Port: http 9111/TCP
TargetPort: 80/TCP
Endpoints: 10.1.0.28:80
Session Affinity: None
Events: <none>This service is pointing to a deployment with a web app.
My question how to I find the url for this service? I already tried http://localhost:9111/ and that did not work.
I verified that the pod that this service points to is up and running.
URL of service is in the below format
<service-name>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local:<service-port>
In your case it is
helloworldsvc.test.svc.cluster.local:9111Get the service name: kubectl get service -n test
URL to a kubernetes service is service-name.namespace.svc.cluster.local:service-port where cluster.local is the kubernetes cluster name.
To get the cluster name: kubectl config get-contexts | awk {'print $2'}
URL to service in your case will be helloworldsvc.test.svc.cluster.local:9111
The way you are trying to do won't work as to make it available on your localhost you need to make the service available at nodeport or using port-forward or using kubectl proxy.
However, if you want dont want a node port and to check if inside the container everything works fine then follow these steps to get inside the container if it has a shell.
kubectl exec -it container-name -n its-namespace-name sh
then do a
curl localhost:80 or curl helloworldsvc.test.svc.cluster.local:9111 or curl 10.1.0.28:80
but both curl commands will work only inside Kubernetes pod and not on your localhost machine.
To access on your host machine kubectl port-forward svc/helloworldsvc 80:9111 -n test
The service you have created is of type ClusterIP which is only accessible from inside the cluster. You have two ways to access it from your desktop:
Create a nodeport type service and then access it via nodeip:nodeport
Use Kubectl port forward and then access it via localhost:forwardedport