K8s - activate ingress controller for minikube

Overview

Make service from an K8s available to the outside world via an Ingress Controller (here nginx)

Prerequisite

• minikube is installed and started

HowTo

activate ingress addon for minikube

minikube addons enable ingress

create file ingress.yml (change it for your needs)

in our case we want to expose an service called nginx to the outside world on port 80 (service must still exists under this name in the cluster)

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: minikube-ingress
spec:
  rules:
  - host: mykube.info
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        backend:
          serviceName: nginx
          servicePort: 80

apply file to the cluster:

kubectl apply -f ingress.yml

make DNS entry in your local /etc/hosts for minikube DNS:

echo "$(minikube ip) mykube.info" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

test it:

ping -c mykube.info

curl mykube.info