GKE Kubernetes Ingress not routing traffic to microservices - docker

Question

I'm pretty new to Kubernetes and trying to deploy what I think is a pretty common use case onto a GKE cluster we have created with Terraform, microservices all hosted on one cluster, but cannot for the life of me get the routing to serve traffic to the correct services. The setup I'm trying to create is as follows:
Deployment & Service for each microservice (canvas-service and video-service)
Single Ingress (class GCE) on the cluster, hosted at a static IP, that routes traffic to each service based on path
The current config looks like this:
canvas-service.yaml
# Deployment (Service Manager)
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: canvas-service-deployment
labels:
name: canvas-service
spec:
replicas: 2
selector:
matchLabels:
app: canvas-service
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: canvas-service
spec:
restartPolicy: Always
containers:
- name: canvas-service
image: gcr.io/emile-learning-dev/canvas-service-image:latest
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health
port: 8080
ports:
- name: root
containerPort: 8080
resources:
requests:
memory: "4096Mi"
cpu: "1000m"
limits:
memory: "8192Mi"
cpu: "2000m"
---
# Service
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: canvas-service
spec:
type: NodePort
ports:
- port: 80
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 8080
selector:
app: canvas-service
video-service.yaml
# Deployment (Service Manager)
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: video-service-deployment
labels:
name: video-service
spec:
replicas: 2
selector:
matchLabels:
app: video-service
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: video-service
spec:
restartPolicy: Always
containers:
- name: video-service
image: gcr.io/emile-learning-dev/video-service-image:latest
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health
port: 8080
ports:
- name: root
containerPort: 8080
resources:
requests:
memory: "4096Mi"
cpu: "1000m"
limits:
memory: "8192Mi"
cpu: "2000m"
---
# Service
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: video-service
spec:
type: NodePort
ports:
- port: 80
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 8080
selector:
app: video-service
services-ingress.yaml
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: services-ingress
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.global-static-ip-name: "services-ip"
spec:
defaultBackend:
service:
name: canvas-service
port:
number: 80
rules:
- http:
paths:
- path: /canvas/*
pathType: ImplementationSpecific
backend:
service:
name: canvas-service
port:
number: 80
- path: /video/*
pathType: ImplementationSpecific
backend:
service:
name: video-service
port:
number: 80
The output of kubectl describe ingress services-ingress looks like this:
Name: services-ingress
Namespace: default
Address: 34.107.136.153
Default backend: canvas-service:80 (10.244.2.17:8080,10.244.5.15:8080)
Rules:
Host Path Backends
---- ---- --------
*
/canvas/* canvas-service:80 (10.244.2.17:8080,10.244.5.15:8080)
/video/* video-service:80 (10.244.1.15:8080,10.244.8.51:8080)
Annotations: ingress.kubernetes.io/backends: {"k8s-be-30551--8ba41a687ec15071":"HEALTHY","k8s-be-32145--8ba41a687ec15071":"HEALTHY"}
ingress.kubernetes.io/forwarding-rule: k8s2-fr-xlhz0sas-default-services-ingress-hqyvwyy1
ingress.kubernetes.io/target-proxy: k8s2-tp-xlhz0sas-default-services-ingress-hqyvwyy1
ingress.kubernetes.io/url-map: k8s2-um-xlhz0sas-default-services-ingress-hqyvwyy1
kubernetes.io/ingress.global-static-ip-name: services-ip
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message
---- ------ ---- ---- -------
Normal Sync 9m36s loadbalancer-controller UrlMap "k8s2-um-xlhz0sas-default-services-ingress-hqyvwyy1" created
Normal Sync 9m34s loadbalancer-controller TargetProxy "k8s2-tp-xlhz0sas-default-services-ingress-hqyvwyy1" created
Normal Sync 9m26s loadbalancer-controller ForwardingRule "k8s2-fr-xlhz0sas-default-services-ingress-hqyvwyy1" created
Normal IPChanged 9m26s loadbalancer-controller IP is now 34.107.136.153
Normal Sync 6m56s (x5 over 11m) loadbalancer-controller Scheduled for sync
For testing, I have a healthcheck route at /health for each service. What I'm running into is that when I hit {public_ip}/health (using the default backend) I get the expected response. But when I hit {public_ip}/canvas/health or {public_ip}/video/health, I get a 404 Not Found.
I know it has something to do with the fact that the entire service route structure is on the /canvas or /video route, but thought that the /* was supposed to address exactly that. I'd like to basically make the root route for each service exist on the corresponding subpaths /canvas and /video. Would love to hear any thoughts you guys have as to what I'm doing wrong that's leading to traffic not being routed correctly.
If it's an issue with the GCP default Ingress resource or this isn't within its functionality, I'm totally open to using an nginx Ingress. But, I haven't been able to get an nginx Ingress to expose an IP at all so figured the GCP Ingress would probably be a shorter path to getting this cluster working. If I'm wrong about this also please let me know.

Answer 1

It's due to the paths defined in Ingress. Changing the path type to /video and /canvas will make this work.
To understand the reason behind this, you need to read nginx ingress controller documentation about path and pathType. You can also use the regex pattern in the path according to the documentation here https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/user-guide/ingress-path-matching/
Tip: When in doubt, you can always go to the nginx ingress controller pods and check the nginx.conf file about the location determined by nginx.