minikube kubernetes – how to access service IP endpoint using curl

This tutorial assumers that minikube kubernetes is already installed. Steps to access service IP endpoint using curl

1. Instal minikube and kubernetes
2. create multi replica deployment
3. Find service cluster IP
   kubectl get svc
   

   NAME             TYPE           CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)          AGE
   hello-minikube   LoadBalancer   10.106.113.247   <pending>     8080:30116/TCP   4h21m
   kubernetes       ClusterIP      10.96.0.1        <none>        443/TCP          18h

4. Ssh to minikube VM (one of the nodes)
   minikube ssh
5. Run curl to access endpoint
   curl SERVICE_INTERNAL_IP:8080
curl 10.106.113.247:8080
   

   Request served by hello-minikube-7ddcbc9b8b-nmc2c
   
   HTTP/1.1 GET /
   
   Host: 10.106.113.247:8080
   Accept: */*
   User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
   docker@minikube:~$ curl 10.106.113.247:8080
   Request served by hello-minikube-7ddcbc9b8b-t2wll
   
   HTTP/1.1 GET /
   
   Host: 10.106.113.247:8080
   Accept: */*
   User-Agent: curl/7.68.0

   
   You will see multiple value of pod name when you run above command multiple times.