I have a minikube cluster with two pods (with ubuntu containers). What I need to do is route test traffic from one port to another through this minikube cluster. This traffic should be sent through these two pods like in the picture. I am a beginner in this Kubernetes stuff so I really don't know how to do this and which way to go... Please, help me or give me some hints.
I am working on ubuntu server ver. 18.04.
There are multiple options you can follow:
As you have two PODs you can expose one via service,
There is also a container to container communication possibility if you can run both applications in a single POD.
POD-1 to POD-2 communication you can use the service option or POD URI.
I agree with an answer provided by @Harsh Manvar and I would also like to expand a little bit on this topic.
There already is an answer with a similar setup. I encourage you to check it out:
There are different drivers that could be used to run your minikube. They will have differences when it comes to dealing with inbound traffic. I missed the part that was telling about the driver used in the setup (comment). If it's the Docker shown in the tags, you could follow below example.
Steps:
nginx-one and nginx-two Deployments to imitate Pods from the image nginx-one to nginx-twonginx-one from LANnginx-one and nginx-two Deployments to imitate Pods from the imageYou can use following definitions to spawn two Deployments where each one will have a single Pod:
nginx-one.yamlapiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: nginx-one
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nginx-one
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx-one
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx
ports:
- containerPort: 80nginx-two.yamlapiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: nginx-two
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nginx-two
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx-two
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx
ports:
- containerPort: 80nginx-one to nginx-twoYou will need to use a Service to send the traffic from nginx-one to nginx-two. Example of such Service could be following:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: nginx-two-service
spec:
type: ClusterIP # could be changed to NodePort
selector:
app: nginx-two # IMPORTANT
ports:
- name: http
protocol: TCP
port: 80
targetPort: 80After applying this definition you will be able to send the traffic to nginx-two by using the service name (nginx-two-service)
A side note!
You can use the IP of the
Podwithout theServicebut this is not a recommended way.
nginx-one from LANAssuming that you want to expose your minikube instance to LAN with Docker driver you will need to create a service and expose it. Example of such setup could be the following:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: nginx-one-service
spec:
type: ClusterIP # could be changed to NodePort
selector:
app: nginx-one # IMPORTANT
ports:
- name: http
protocol: TCP
port: 80
targetPort: 80You will also need to run:
$ kubectl port-forward --address 0.0.0.0 service/nginx-one-service 8000:80Above command (ran on your minikube host!) will expose your nginx-one-service to be available on LAN. It will map port 8000 on the machine that ran this command to the port 80 of this service. You can check it by executing from another machine at LAN:
curl IP_ADDRESS_OF_MINIKUBE_HOST:8000A side note!
You will need root access to have your inbound traffic enter on ports lesser than 1024.
You will need to check if there is a communication between the objects as shown in below "connection diagram".
PC -> nginx-one -> nginx-two -> example.com
The testing methodology could be following:
PC -> nginx-one:
curl MINIKUBE_IP_ADDRESS:8000nginx-one -> nginx-two:
nginx-one Pod and run command: $ kubectl exec -it NGINX_POD_ONE_NAME -- /bin/bash$ curl nginx-two-servicenginx-two -> example.com:
nginx-two Pod and run command: $ kubectl exec -it NGINX_POD_TWO_NAME -- /bin/bash$ curl example.comIf you completed above steps you can swap nginx Pods for your own software.
Additional notes and resources:
I encourage you to check kubeadm as it's the tool to create your own Kubernetes clusters:
As you said:
I am a beginner in this Kubernetes stuff so I really don't know how to do this and which way to go... Please, help me or give me some hints.
You could check following links for more resources: