Apply a service locally and connect it to our nginx POD

Our goal here is to apply a service locally and connect it to our nginx POD that we previously created. That way, we can access nginx through our browser (using Minikube -ip) Remember – pods are not directly accessible outside of K8s cluster, we must expose them through a service!

• Open your terminal on your VM and get inside the directory k8s - use syntax cd k8s .
• create a configuration file and name it as "service.yaml" - use syntax vi service.yaml
• Copy the below instructions - while maintaining Indentation as seen below:

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: my-nginx-service
spec:
  selector:
    app: nginx
  ports:
  - protocol: TCP
    port: 80
    nodePort: 30001
  type: NodePort

• Run the command to create a service - kubectl apply –f service.yaml
• So, our service is exposing our pod, which in turn is running the nginx Docker container.
• Run the command kubectl get services and check the TYPE, CLUSTER-IP and the PORT(S) of the service you created.
• Note: TYPE = NodePort, Service Port inside the cluster is 80 which is mapped to 30001 - where it is now exposed!
• To access the application from the browser - using the NodePort service - run a command minikube service my-nginx-service
• You will now be exposed to the IP of the Minikube with the nodePort exposed!
• Curl the IP address to the exposed IP or open the same using a browser!