Kubernetes : Micro services running on same port? - docker

I am building a microservice full stack web application as (so far) :
ReactJS (client microservice) : listens on 3000
Authentication (Auth microservice) : listens on 3000 // accidently assigned the same port
Technically, what I have heard/learned so far is that we cannot have two Pods running on the same port.
I am really confused how am I able to run the application (perfectly) like this with same ports on different applications/pods?
ingress-nginx config:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: ingress-service
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: 'true'
spec:
## our custom routing rules
rules:
- host: ticketing.dev
http:
paths:
- path: /api/users/?(.*)
backend:
serviceName: auth-srv
servicePort: 3000
- path: /?(.*)
backend:
serviceName: client-srv
servicePort: 3000
I am really curious, am I missing something here?

Each Pod has its own network namespace and its own IP address, though the Pod-specific IP addresses aren't reachable from outside the cluster and aren't really discoverable inside the cluster. Since each Pod has its own IP address, you can have as many Pods as you want all listening to the same port.
Each Service also has its own IP address; again, not reachable from outside the cluster, though they have DNS names so applications can find them. Since each Service has its own IP address, you can have as many Services as you want all listening to the same port. The Service ports can be the same or different from the Pod ports.
The Ingress controller is reachable from outside the cluster via HTTP. The Ingress specification you show defines HTTP routing rules. If I set up a DNS service with a .dev TLD and define an A record for ticketing.dev that points at the ingress controller, then http://ticketing.dev/api/users/anything gets forwarded to http://auth-srv.default.svc.cluster.local:3000/ within the cluster, and http://ticketing.dev/otherwise goes to http://client-srv.default.svc.cluster.local:3000/. Those in turn will get forwarded to whatever Pods they're connected to.
There's no particular prohibition against multiple Pods or Services having the same port. I tend to like setting all of my HTTP Services to listen on port 80 since it's the standard HTTP port, even if the individual Pods are listening on port 3000 or 8000 or 8080 or whatever else.

You have two different services in the backend: auth-srv and client-srv. Therefore, you have two different addresses and then can use any port you want in each of it. that means you can get the same port in the two different services.

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Ingress NGNIX does not listen on URL with specified port

I am running Azure AKS with Kubenet networking, in which I have deployed several services, exposed on several ports.
I have configured a URL based routing and it seems to work for the services I could test.
I found out the following:
sending URL and URL:80, returns the desired web page, but the URL displayed in the browser's address bar is removing the port, if I send it. Looks like http://URL/
When I try accessing other web pages or services, I get a strange phenomena: Calling the URL with the port number, is waiting until the browser says it's unreachable. Fiddler returns "time out".
When I access the service (1 of 3 I could check visibly) and not provide the port, the Ingress rules I applied answer the request and I get the resulting web page, which is exposed on the internal service port.
i'm using this YAML, for rabbit management page:
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: rabbit-admin-on-ingress
namespace: mynamespace
spec:
rules:
- host: rabbit.my.local
http:
paths:
- path: /
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: rabbitmq
port:
number: 15672
ingressClassName: nginx
and also, apply this config (using kubectl apply -f config.file.yaml):
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: tcp-services
namespace: ingress-nginx
data:
15672: "mynamespace/rabbitmq:15672"
What happens is:
http://rabbit.my.local gets the rabbit admin page
http://rabbit.my.local:15672 get a time out and I get frustrated
It seems this is also happening on another service I have running on port 8085 and perhaps even the DB running on the usual SQL port (might be a TCP only connection)
Both are configured the same as the rabbitmq service in the yaml rules and config file, with their respected service names, namespaces and ports.
Please help me to figure out how I can make Ingress accept the URLs with the :PORT attached to it and answer them. Save me.
A quick reminder - :80 works fine. Perhaps because it's one of the defaults for Ingress
Thank you so much in advance.
Moshe

How to block outgoing traffic to ip in IP tables in K8S

I want block outgoing traffic to the ip (eg-DB) in IP tables in K8s.
I know that in K8s ip tables exist only at node level.
and I'm not sure in which file changes should be made and what is the command or changes required.
Please help me with this query.
Thanks.
You could deploy istio and specifically the istio egress gateway.
This way you will be able to manage outgoing traffic within the istio manifest
You can directly run the IPtable command (ex. iptables -A OUTPUT -j REJECT) on top of a node if that's fine.
however file depends on the OS : /etc/sysconfig/iptables this is for ipv4
i would suggest checking out the Network policy in Kubernetes using that you can block the outgoing traffic.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
No extra setup is required like Istio or anything.
Cluster security you can handle using the network policy in the backend it uses IP tables only.
For example to block traffic on specific CIDR or IP by applying the YAML only
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
name: test-network-policy
namespace: default
spec:
podSelector:
matchLabels:
role: db
policyTypes:
- Egress
egress:
- to:
- ipBlock:
cidr: 10.0.0.0/24
ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 5978

GKE - Bypass Pod LoadBalancer (Pod's external IP) to Pod's container's IP at runtime for WebSocket purpose

I have the following situation:
I have a couple of microservices, only 2 are relevant right now.
- Web Socket Service API
- Dispatcher Service
We have 3 users that we'll call respectively 1, 2, and 3. These users connect themselves to the web socket endpoint of our backend. Our microservices are running on Kubernetes and each services can be replicated multiple times inside Pods. For this situation, we have 1 running container for the dispatcher, and 3 running containers for the web socket api. Each pod has its Load Balancer and this will be each time the entry point.
In our situation, we will then have the following "schema":
Now that we have a representation of our system (and a legend), our 3 users will want to use the app and connect.
As we can see, the load balancer of our pod forwarded the web socket connection of our users across the different containers. Each container, once it gets a new connection, will let to know the Dispatcher Service, and this one will save it in its own database.
Now, 3 users are connected to 2 different containers and the Dispatcher service knows it.
The user 1 wants to message user 2. The container A will then get a message and tell the Dispatcher Service: Please, send this to the user 2.
As the dispatcher knows to which container the user 2 is connected, I would like to send a request directly to my Container instead of sending it to the Pod. Sending it to the Pod is resulting in sending a request to a load balancer which actually dispatches the request to the most available container instance...
How could I manage to get the container IP? Can it be accessed by another container from another Pod?
To me, the best approach would be that, once the app start, it gets the current container's IP and then send it within the register request to the dispatcher, so the dispatcher would know that ContainerID=IP
Thanks!
edit 1
There is my web-socket-service-api.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: web-socket-service-api
spec:
ports:
# Port that accepts gRPC and JSON/HTTP2 requests over HTTP.
- port: 8080
targetPort: 8080
protocol: TCP
name: grpc
# Port that accepts gRPC and JSON/HTTP2 requests over HTTP.
- port: 8081
targetPort: 8081
protocol: TCP
name: rest
# Port that accepts WebSockets.
- port: 8082
targetPort: 8082
protocol: TCP
name: websocket
selector:
app: web-socket-service-api
type: LoadBalancer
---
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: web-socket-service-api
spec:
replicas: 3
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: web-socket-service-api
spec:
containers:
- name: web-socket-service-api
image: gcr.io/[PROJECT]/web-socket-service-api:latest
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
- containerPort: 8081
- containerPort: 8082
Dispatcher ≈ Message broker
As how I understand your design, your Dispatcher is essentially a message broker for the pods of your Websocket Service. Let all Websocket pods connect to the broker and let the broker route messages. This is a stateful service and you should use a StatefulSet for this in Kubernetes. Depending on your requirements, a possible solution could be to use a MQTT-broker for this, e.g. mosquitto. Most MQTT brokers have support for websockets.
Scale out: Multiple replicas of pods
each services can be replicated multiple times inside Pods. For this situation, we have 1 running container for the dispatcher, and 3 running containers for the web socket api.
This is not how Kubernetes is intented to be used. Use multiple replicas of pods instead of multiple containers in the pod. I recommend that you create a Deployment for your Websocket Service with as many replicas you want.
Service as Load balancer
Each pod has its Load Balancer and this will be each time the entry point.
In Kubernetes you should create a Service that load balance traffic to a set of pods.
Your solution
To me, the best approach would be that, once the app start, it gets the current container's IP and then send it within the register request to the dispatcher, so the dispatcher would know that ContainerID=IP
Yes, I mostly agree. That is similar to what I have described here. But I would let the Websocket Service establish a connection to the Broker/Dispatcher.
Any pod, has some information about itself. And one of the info, is it own IP address. As an example:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: envars-fieldref
spec:
containers:
- name: test-container
image: k8s.gcr.io/busybox
command: [ "sh", "-c"]
args:
- while true; do
echo -en '\n';
printenv MY_POD_IP;
sleep 10;
done;
env:
- name: MY_POD_IP
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: status.podIP
Within the container, MY_POD_IP would contain the IP address of the pod. You can let the dispatcher know about it.
$ kubectl logs envars-fieldref
10.52.0.3
$ kubectl get po -owide
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE NOMINATED NODE READINESS GATES
envars-fieldref 1/1 Running 0 31s 10.52.0.3 gke-klusta-lemmy-3ce02acd-djhm <none> <none>
Note that it is not a good idea to rely on pod IP address. But this should do the trick.
Also, it is exactly the same thing to send a request to the pod or to the container.

Google Compute kubernetes only can be access when nodePort on NodePort service is 80

Somehow, I am trying to start a kubernetes project on Google Compute (not GKE). After all installation (read docker-ce, kubelet, kubeadm) I create a Service and a Deployment inside as follows :
apiVersion : v1
kind : Service
metadata:
name: client-node-port
spec:
type: NodePort
ports:
- port: 90
targetPort: 80
nodePort: 31515
selector:
component: web
It was working until I change the targetPort inside service to any port beside 80 (along with the Deployment containerPort).
I already tried enabling the port on the instance firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=(any port beside 80)/tcp
Beside that I also already enable the firewall rule in google Google Firewall Setting
Is there anything that I missed ? Why I can only access the NodePort when nodePort setting in the service is 80 ?
Thanks
PS : If it is relevant, I am using flannel network
May I know why you are trying to change targetPort ?
TargetPortis the port on the POD where the service is running.
Nodeportis the port on which the service can be accessed from external users by nodeip:nodeport.
Port: the same as Nodeport but can be used by cluster users using clusterip:port.
Again, in your case port 80 represents the service is actually running on port 80.
You should change targetPortin case you will set the service in the pod that is running on a different port.
Review this question for more details.

Kubernetes: Replace mod_cluster for back end services (reverse proxy)

I am migrating my current service to Kubernetes. Currently back end services are resolved via mod_cluster. mod cluster manager runs on httpd and mod_cluster clients auto register their web contexts with httpd/mod_cluster manager on startup
user-->ingress-rule--> httpd [running mod_cluster manager]--> Jboss[mod_cluster clients]
I resolve my UI via the following ingress rule
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: httpd
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-passthrough: "true"
spec:
rules:
- host: myk8s.myath.myserv.com
http:
paths:
- path: /
backend:
serviceName: httpd
servicePort: 443
tls:
- hosts:
- myk8s.myath.myserv.com
This works well, resolves UI, can log in and resolve all static content etc.
Mod cluster exposes services such as myservice. I disabled mod_cluster and created a Kubernetes service myservice that resolved to the back-end Pod thinking that the Ingress rule would get the request as far as httpd and then httpd would be able to resolve the backend service via Kubernetes but i get 404s as I am unable to resolve myservice
Service can be resolved via Reverse proxy rules such as below, but this is not preferred solution
# Redirect to myjbossserv
ProxyPass /myservice/services/command/ http://myjbossserv:8080/myservice/services/command/ <-----myjbossserv is a service registered in kubernetes
ProxyPassReverse /myservice/services/command/ http://myjbossserv:8080/myservice/services/command/
Any help much appreciated
The simplest way to solve this...catering for all HA and robustness use cases was to use reverse proxy rules. There are multiple ways to configure these such as at image build time or via config maps...
# Redirect to myjbossserv
ProxyPass /myservice/services/command/ http://myjbossserv:8080/myservice/services/command/ <-----myjbossserv is a service registered in kubernetes
ProxyPassReverse /myservice/services/command/ http://myjbossserv:8080/myservice/services/command/

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