I want to deploy a website on my kubernetes cluster.
I followed this guide to set up my kubernetes cluster on my set of raspberries. Now I have tested it with some nginx containers and it works to a certain degree since I need to find the correct ip of the machine it is deployed on.
Now that I have a signed up a domain I like to forward the traffic to my deployed website on my kubernetes cluster.
I have done this before with nginx, certbot and letsencrypt without containerisation. Now I am just missing the part how kubernetes handles the network. I assumed it was similar to swarms network which forwards all the request to the correct machine. But kubernetes does it differently.
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You need to create Kubernetes Service (documentation) to expose the web service to the outside world.
There are two types of Services relevant to deployments outside of cloud providers:
ClusterIP: Exposes the Service on a cluster-internal IP. Choosing this value makes the Service only reachable from within the cluster. This is the default ServiceType.
NodePort: Exposes the Service on each Node's IP at a static port (the NodePort). A ClusterIP Service, to which the NodePort Service routes, is automatically created. You'll be able to contact the NodePort Service, from outside the cluster, by requesting
<NodeIP>:<NodePort>.
So what you probably want is a NodePort service, which will expose the service on some fixed port on each of your Nodes (documentation and examples)