I have defined a validatingWebhook configuration with a custom controller that is deployed as a deployment, snippet below for validatingWebhook:

apiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1
kind: ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
metadata:
  name: validate-webhook
  namespace: admission-test
webhooks:
  - name: admission.validate.com
   namespaceSelector:
  matchExpressions:
    - key: app
      operator: NotIn
      values: ["admission-test"]
rules:
  - apiGroups:   ["*"]
    apiVersions: ["v1","v1beta1","v1alpha1"]
    operations:  ["CREATE","UPDATE"]
    resources:   ["deployments","daemonsets","statefulsets","cronjobs", "rollouts", "jobs"]
    scope:       "Namespaced"
clientConfig:
  service:
    namespace: admission-test
    name: admission-test
    #service port
    port: 8090
    path: /verify
admissionReviewVersions: ["v1"]
sideEffects: None

and on my application I have defined a http Handler, snippet is below:

	http.HandleFunc("/verify", servePod)
http.HandleFunc("/healthz", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	w.WriteHeader(200)
	klog.Infoln("hittinh healthz")
	w.Write([]byte("ok"))
})
server := &http.Server{
	Addr:      fmt.Sprintf(":%d", port),
	TLSConfig: admission.ConfigTLS(config),
}

I am trying to create another simple nginx deployment, which can be found here but when I try to print the the body of /verify in customer controller that I wrote, I don't get anything. In fact it's like the other deployments are not passing through the admission controller.

Any pointers on why this is happening? Much appreciated

running kubernetes version

kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"21", GitVersion:"v1.21.4", GitCommit:"3cce4a82b44f032d0cd1a1790e6d2f5a55d20aae", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-08-11T18:16:05Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.7", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"darwin/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"21", GitVersion:"v1.21.4", GitCommit:"3cce4a82b44f032d0cd1a1790e6d2f5a55d20aae", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-08-11T18:10:22Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.7", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"} 

k8s cluster is running via docker desktop