How to access the POD from outside the K8s cluster?

In this blog, we will show you the easy steps to access the POD from outside the Kubernetes cluster.

Requirements

• 2 Node Cluster ( 1 Master VM with 2 Nodes)
• Kubernetes Components

Infrastructure Overview

• Firstly we need to create and install the 2-node cluster in the environment.
• We have already installed and configured the 2 Node cluster in our demo environment. To know how to install and configure visit the

Kubernetes service

• We can able to access our application through services. Our application can be accessed from the inside and the outside of the cluster.
• Services will be reliable between the POD and client end.
• The service will get a virtual IP from the DNS and it will never change. Also, it gets a DNS name and a Port number. The port number is available cluster-wide. Using this port we can able to access our application from outside.
• We are creating an endpoint object along with the services. It contains the POD information. The endpoint will get updated when a POD creates (or) deletes.
• We tied pods with services using Labels.
• We will specify the Label information in the POD creation manifest file.
• DNS cluster add-on implements DNS service in the cluster.
• Services get DNS names that are resolvable inside the cluster.

Environment overview

• We have already created a POD named hello-pod for this demo.

• Also, we used the below manifest file to create our demo hello-pod.

Note: Labels are mandatory for kubernetes services. So we need to specify the label information in the manifest file for POD creation.

• Currently, there are 2 nodes in the cluster. Node 1 IP is 192.168.3.82 and Node 2 IP is 192.168.3.83

Creating a service

• From the Kubernetes Master server, execute the below command to create a service.

Syntax: kubectl expose pod <pod-name> --name=<name for the service> --port=<container application port> --type=NodePort

Example: kubectl expose pod hello-pod --name=hello-svc --port=80 --type=NodePort

Note: By default, the public Ngnix container listens to port 80.

• Service created successfully.

• Describe the service using the below command.

kubectl describe service hello-svc

• The service virtual IP is 10.103.224.243 and the NodePort is 30134. Using this node port we can able to access the application from your local machine.
• Services Port will be available from 30000 to 32767.

Verification

• Open the web browser from the local machine and access type the kubernetes node IP along with the Node port.

• We can access the nginx homepage successfully. It’s a containerized web server listening in port 80 and we mapped it to 30134 in every node in the cluster.

• We can also able to access the application from Node 2.

Video Tutorial

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