Kubernetes service running on localhost

Question

I have deployed pods running nginx using helm, but when I do minikube service service_name, I see my service running on localhost as shown below.

I thought that you need to access the service via the cluster IP not localhost?

I tried to access it using the cluster ip with the port of the service, but it doesn't seem to work.

I also tried to run it again after stopping docker, but it seems that docker is required to start the kubernetes cluster.

I'm following this kubecon demo , in the demo she can access it using the cluster ip just fine.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65951413/kubernetes-service-running-on-localhost

Answer 1

This is achieved using minikube tunnel command executed in separate terminal. This creates a tunnel and adds route to ClusterIP range.